Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 15, 10:06 AM ET

NOK max pain

Spot (delayed)$9.34
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$10+7.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.42±15.2% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI1.273K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$11largest call OI
Put wall$8largest put OI
IV3065.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$10Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $8

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 16$10.5+12.4%1d
Fri, Oct 23$10.5+12.4%8d
Fri, Oct 30$10+7.1%15d
Fri, Nov 6$10+7.1%22d
Fri, Nov 13$10+7.1%29d
Fri, Nov 20$10+7.1%36d
Fri, Nov 27$10+7.1%43d
Fri, Dec 18$11+17.8%64d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot10369121518$1M$0
■ put-side pain■ call-side painTotal payout option writers would owe at each settle price (both sides, all open interest, ×100 shares) — low settles hurt put writers, high settles hurt call writers. The minimum — 10 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot1038101214162K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NOK open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 13.

Open-interest change — building vs unwinding

Needs two observed snapshot days for this expiration — the comparison appears automatically once the next weekday snapshot lands. We diff real observations only; nothing is estimated.

Volume by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot1038101214162K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot81012141618177%56%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 65.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 87.59.511.513.515.5+$21K−$21K
Net dealer gamma per strike, in dollars per 1% move, assuming the standard convention (dealers long calls, short puts) — an assumption, not an observation. Above the amber flip level hedging tends to dampen moves; below it, to amplify them.

Greeks by strike · Fri, Nov 13

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
1.00—30.00030.000.00-0.00
1.00—40.00130.000.00-0.00
1.00—50.00540.00-0.00-0.01
0.90-0.017.50.09840.01-0.01-0.10
0.83-0.0180.14270.01-0.01-0.17
0.74-0.018.50.18530.01-0.01-0.26
0.63-0.0190.21510.01-0.01-0.37
0.52-0.019.50.22560.01-0.01-0.48
0.41-0.01100.21800.01-0.01-0.59
0.32-0.0110.50.19750.01-0.01-0.69
0.25-0.01110.17070.01-0.01-0.76
0.19-0.0111.50.14250.01-0.01-0.82
0.14-0.01120.11600.01-0.01-0.87
0.10-0.0112.50.09270.01-0.01-0.91
0.08-0.01130.07320.00-0.00-0.93

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 23 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot171115223067K0
Call open interest per strike, stacked across the checked expirations — each color is one expiry. Strikes are pruned to the liquid center of each chain.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot15.51014.52231256K256K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 2.3M call contracts, 910K put contracts open.

Reading this honestly

Max pain is arithmetic, not prophecy: the settle price that would minimize what option writers pay out at expiration, computed from open interest alone. Prices sometimes gravitate toward heavy strikes into expiry — dealer hedging is a real flow — but the evidence that max pain predicts settlement better than chance is mixed, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Use it as a map of where positioning is stacked, next to the fundamentals and the earnings calendar, not as a target.

Data: Cboe delayed public feed (~15 minutes), refreshed here about every 15 minutes. Open interest itself updates once daily, before the open. Educational information, not investment advice.

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