Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 14, 4:51 PM ET

OKE max pain

Spot (delayed)$92.02
Max pain · Fri, Oct 16$90-2.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.95±2.1% by Fri, Oct 16
Put/Call OI0.437K puts / 16K calls
Call wall$95largest call OI
Put wall$90largest put OI
IV3030.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2.6Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $70

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 16$90-2.2%2d
Fri, Nov 20$90-2.2%37d
Fri, Dec 18$90-2.2%65d
Fri, Jan 15$80-13.1%93d
Fri, Mar 19$85-7.6%156d
Fri, Apr 16$85-7.6%184d
Thu, Jun 17$85-7.6%246d
Fri, Sep 17$85-7.6%338d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot90506784101118135$59M$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 — 90 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot90506580951101255K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)OKE open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 16.

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 16

spot90506580951101258282
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spot75828996103110127%27%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 33.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 16

spotflip 7050658095110125+$3.4M−$3.4M
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 16

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
1.00—550.00010.00-0.000.00
1.00—600.00020.00-0.00-0.00
1.00—650.00030.00-0.00-0.00
1.00-0.00700.00070.00-0.01-0.00
1.00-0.01750.00160.00-0.01-0.00
0.99-0.01800.00440.00-0.02-0.01
0.97-0.04850.01710.01-0.04-0.03
0.81-0.16900.10780.02-0.16-0.19
0.16-0.15950.08770.02-0.15-0.84
0.04-0.051000.01870.01-0.05-0.97
0.01-0.021050.00580.00-0.02-0.99
0.01-0.011100.00220.00-0.02-1.00
0.00-0.001150.00100.00-0.02-1.00
0.00-0.001200.00050.00-0.02-1.00
0.00-0.001250.00030.00-0.02-1.00

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 17 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot50759010512013513K0
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

spot35608510013016017K17K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 83K call contracts, 27K 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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