Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 28, 1:29 AM ET

NTR max pain

Spot (delayed)$69.37
Max pain · Fri, Oct 30$69-0.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.95±2.8% by Fri, Oct 30
Put/Call OI1.132K puts / 1K calls
Call wall$74largest call OI
Put wall$68largest put OI
IV3035.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$471Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $60

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 30$69-0.5%2d
Fri, Nov 6$70+0.9%9d
Fri, Nov 13$67-3.4%16d
Fri, Nov 20$70+0.9%23d
Fri, Nov 27$66-4.9%30d
Fri, Dec 4$74+6.7%37d
Fri, Dec 18$62.5-9.9%51d
Fri, Jan 15$67.5-2.7%79d
Fri, Mar 19$70+0.9%142d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot69405060718191$4M$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 — 69 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 30

spot69406066727886447447
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NTR open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 30.

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, Oct 30

spot694060667278868383
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 30

spot606570758085152%35%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 38.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 30

spotflip 60556268748088+$316K−$316K
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, Oct 30

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.99-0.01620.00910.00-0.01-0.01
0.98-0.02630.01460.00-0.02-0.02
0.97-0.03640.02380.01-0.03-0.03
0.94-0.04650.03900.01-0.04-0.06
0.91-0.07660.06370.01-0.07-0.10
0.83-0.10670.09940.02-0.10-0.17
0.72-0.14680.14060.02-0.14-0.28
0.57-0.17690.16790.03-0.17-0.44
0.40-0.16700.16300.02-0.17-0.61
0.26-0.14710.13210.02-0.14-0.75
0.16-0.10720.09500.02-0.10-0.85
0.10-0.07730.06410.01-0.07-0.91
0.06-0.05740.04200.01-0.05-0.95
0.04-0.03750.02740.01-0.03-0.97
0.02-0.02760.01780.00-0.02-0.98

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 36 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot4060667278854850
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

spot22.55062.57281909K9K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 50K call contracts, 34K 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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