Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 7:22 PM ET

NTRA max pain

Spot (delayed)$401.43
Max pain · Thu, Jun 17$310-22.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$139.95±34.9% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI0.17151 puts / 888 calls
Call wall$500largest call OI
Put wall$310largest put OI
IV3063.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$258Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $260

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, Nov 20$350-12.8%25d
Fri, Dec 18$400-0.4%53d
Fri, Jan 15$270-32.7%81d
Fri, Mar 19$350-12.8%144d
Fri, Apr 16$420+4.6%172d
Thu, Jun 17$310-22.8%234d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot310165256347438529620$14M$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 — 310 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot310165240330390450580595595
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NTRA open contracts per strike for Thu, Jun 17.

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 · Thu, Jun 17

spot31016524033039045058077
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot16525634743852962062%54%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 55.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spotflip 260165240330390450580+$211K−$211K
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 · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.77-0.093300.00170.98-0.11-0.24
0.75-0.103400.00181.03-0.12-0.26
0.72-0.103500.00181.07-0.12-0.28
0.70-0.113600.00191.11-0.13-0.30
0.68-0.123700.00201.15-0.13-0.33
0.66-0.123800.00201.18-0.13-0.35
0.64-0.123900.00211.20-0.14-0.37
0.62-0.134000.00211.23-0.14-0.39
0.60-0.134100.00221.24-0.14-0.41
0.57-0.134200.00221.26-0.14-0.44
0.55-0.144300.00221.27-0.14-0.46
0.53-0.144400.00221.28-0.14-0.48
0.51-0.144500.00221.28-0.14-0.50
0.49-0.144600.00221.28-0.14-0.52
0.47-0.144700.00221.28-0.14-0.55

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 33 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1051602203204205402K0
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

spot951502103204305403K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 21K call contracts, 17K 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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