Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 12, 12:38 PM ET

ORCL max pain

Spot (delayed)$140.73
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$145+3.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$18.48±13.1% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI1.294K puts / 3K calls
Call wall$170largest call OI
Put wall$125largest put OI
IV3053.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$214Kper 1% move
Earnings · expectedWed, Dec 9usually after the close

Event risk before this expiration: CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · 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 16$145+3.0%4d
Fri, Oct 23$140-0.5%11d
Fri, Oct 30$140-0.5%18d
Fri, Nov 6$137-2.7%25d
Fri, Nov 13$145+3.0%32d
Fri, Nov 20$150+6.6%39d
Fri, Nov 27$135-4.1%46d
Fri, Dec 18$155+10.1%67d← 1st expiry after earnings (Wed, Dec 9)

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot14580105130155180205$22M$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 — 145 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot14580124133142152.5180679679
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ORCL 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

spot14580124133142152.5180247247
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot8010513015518020580%52%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 52.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot80125134143155185+$160K−$160K
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
0.67-0.121340.01570.16-0.12-0.33
0.65-0.121350.01600.16-0.12-0.35
0.64-0.121360.01620.17-0.13-0.37
0.62-0.131370.01650.17-0.13-0.38
0.60-0.131380.01670.17-0.13-0.40
0.58-0.131390.01680.17-0.13-0.42
0.57-0.131400.01700.17-0.13-0.44
0.55-0.131410.01710.17-0.13-0.45
0.53-0.131420.01710.17-0.13-0.47
0.52-0.131430.01720.17-0.13-0.49
0.50-0.131440.01720.17-0.13-0.51
0.48-0.131450.01710.17-0.13-0.52
0.47-0.131460.01700.17-0.13-0.54
0.45-0.131470.01700.17-0.13-0.55
0.43-0.131480.01680.17-0.13-0.57

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 51 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot80127139152.5182.524074K0
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

spot60105145190270360142K142K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1.9M call contracts, 1.6M 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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