Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 21, 8:19 PM ET

OKLO max pain

Spot (delayed)$27.7
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$32+15.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$4.63±16.7% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.804K puts / 5K calls
Call wall$30largest call OI
Put wall$34largest put OI
IV3079.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$26Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $26

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 23$29+4.7%2d
Fri, Oct 30$32+15.5%9d
Fri, Nov 6$32+15.5%16d
Fri, Nov 13$32+15.5%23d
Fri, Nov 20$40+44.4%30d
Fri, Nov 27$34+22.7%37d
Fri, Dec 18$45+62.5%58d
Fri, Jan 15$42+51.6%86d
Fri, Mar 19$45+62.5%149d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot32202734414855$10M$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 — 32 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot32202631364146844844
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)OKLO 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

spot322026313641465353
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot202734414855128%78%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 82.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 26202631364146+$32K−$32K
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
0.94-0.01200.01820.01-0.01-0.06
0.88-0.03220.03260.01-0.03-0.12
0.84-0.03230.04090.02-0.03-0.16
0.79-0.04240.04910.02-0.04-0.21
0.73-0.04250.05640.02-0.04-0.27
0.67-0.05260.06240.03-0.05-0.34
0.60-0.05270.06650.03-0.05-0.40
0.53-0.05280.06850.03-0.05-0.47
0.46-0.05290.06840.03-0.05-0.54
0.40-0.05300.06640.03-0.05-0.60
0.34-0.05310.06290.03-0.05-0.66
0.29-0.04320.05840.02-0.04-0.71
0.24-0.04330.05320.02-0.04-0.76
0.20-0.04340.04770.02-0.04-0.80
0.17-0.03350.04230.02-0.03-0.84

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 29 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot2025.530.535.540.5494K0
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

spot2.527387012519539K39K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 454K call contracts, 235K 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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