Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 16, 11:54 PM ET

OKTA max pain

Spot (delayed)$185.26
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$165-10.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$27.9±15.1% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.819K puts / 11K calls
Call wall$180largest call OI
Put wall$195largest put OI
IV3061.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$482Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $110

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$205+10.7%7d
Fri, Oct 30$210+13.4%14d
Fri, Nov 6$205+10.7%21d
Fri, Nov 13$200+8.0%28d
Fri, Nov 20$165-10.9%35d
Fri, Nov 27$215+16.1%42d
Fri, Dec 18$130-29.8%63d
Fri, Jan 15$110-40.6%91d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1653390148205263320$140M$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 — 165 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot16532.562.587.51251752501K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)OKTA open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.

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 20

spot16532.562.587.51251752501K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot50104158212266320226%55%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 60.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 1108097.5130165200270+$210K−$210K
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 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.89-0.101500.00500.11-0.10-0.11
0.86-0.121550.00600.13-0.12-0.14
0.82-0.141600.00710.15-0.14-0.18
0.78-0.151650.00810.17-0.15-0.22
0.73-0.171700.00910.19-0.17-0.27
0.68-0.181750.00990.21-0.18-0.32
0.63-0.191800.01060.22-0.20-0.37
0.57-0.201850.01100.23-0.20-0.43
0.52-0.201900.01130.23-0.20-0.49
0.46-0.201950.01130.23-0.20-0.54
0.41-0.202000.01110.23-0.20-0.60
0.31-0.182100.01010.20-0.18-0.69
0.23-0.152200.00860.18-0.15-0.78
0.17-0.122300.00700.14-0.13-0.84
0.12-0.102400.00560.12-0.10-0.89

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 58 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot90148175202.52302655050
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

spot37.57097.51351752405K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 74K call contracts, 86K 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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