Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 16, 8:16 PM ET

NTNX max pain

Spot (delayed)$66.96
Max pain · Fri, Dec 15$67.5+0.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$37.2±55.6% by Fri, Dec 15
Put/Call OI0.9816K puts / 16K calls
Call wall$85largest call OI
Put wall$65largest put OI
IV3042.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $60

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 16$60-10.4%today
Fri, Nov 20$70+4.5%35d
Fri, Dec 18$60-10.4%63d
Fri, Jan 15$57.5-14.1%91d
Fri, Apr 16$65-2.9%182d
Fri, Jan 21$40-40.3%462d
Fri, Jun 16$32.5-51.5%609d
Fri, Dec 15$67.5+0.8%791d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot67.52843597490105$60M$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 — 67.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Dec 15

spot67.527.5456072.59011K11K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NTNX open contracts per strike for Fri, Dec 15.

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, Dec 15

spot67.527.5456072.59022
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Dec 15

spot284359749010562%46%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 49.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Dec 15

spotflip 6027.5456072.590+$415K−$415K
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, Dec 15

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.90-0.0037.50.00340.18-0.01-0.11
0.85-0.00450.00450.23-0.01-0.16
0.82-0.01500.00530.26-0.01-0.20
0.80-0.0152.50.00560.28-0.01-0.21
0.78-0.01550.00590.29-0.01-0.23
0.75-0.01600.00650.32-0.01-0.28
0.71-0.01650.00700.34-0.01-0.32
0.69-0.0167.50.00720.35-0.01-0.34
0.67-0.01700.00740.35-0.01-0.36
0.66-0.0172.50.00760.36-0.01-0.38
0.64-0.01750.00780.37-0.01-0.41
0.60-0.01800.00800.38-0.01-0.45
0.57-0.01850.00820.39-0.01-0.49
0.54-0.01900.00830.39-0.01-0.53
0.51-0.01950.00840.39-0.01-0.57

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 20 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot32.542.552.562.572.582.52K0
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

spot17.532.547.562.577.59513K13K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 51K call contracts, 39K 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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