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

OKTA max pain

Spot (delayed)$185.26
Max pain · Fri, Nov 27$215+16.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$30.5±16.5% by Fri, Nov 27
Put/Call OI0.9393 puts / 100 calls
Call wall$250largest call OI
Put wall$215largest put OI
IV3061.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$9Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $170

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

spot215155180205230255280$1M$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 — 215 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot2151551802002202402652323
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)OKTA open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 27.

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 27

spot2151551802002202402652626
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot15518020523025528073%58%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 60.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spotflip 170155180200220240265+$5K−$5K
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 27

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.85-0.111550.00600.15-0.11-0.15
0.77-0.141650.00780.19-0.14-0.23
0.72-0.151700.00860.21-0.16-0.28
0.68-0.171750.00920.23-0.17-0.33
0.63-0.171800.00980.24-0.18-0.38
0.58-0.181850.01010.25-0.18-0.43
0.53-0.181900.01030.25-0.19-0.48
0.47-0.181950.01030.25-0.19-0.53
0.43-0.182000.01020.25-0.18-0.58
0.38-0.172050.00980.24-0.18-0.63
0.34-0.172100.00940.23-0.17-0.67
0.30-0.162150.00890.22-0.16-0.71
0.26-0.152200.00830.21-0.15-0.75

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 strikes around the money — all 23 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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