Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 27, 2:12 AM ET

ORKA max pain

Spot (delayed)$88.13
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$70-20.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$11.3±12.8% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.04121 puts / 3K calls
Call wall$105largest call OI
Put wall$85largest put OI
IV3060.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$416Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $60

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, Nov 20$70-20.6%24d
Fri, Dec 18$75-14.9%52d
Fri, Jan 15$75-14.9%80d
Fri, Feb 19$75-14.9%115d
Fri, Mar 19$45-48.9%143d
Fri, May 21$120+36.2%206d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot7015426996123150$14M$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 — 70 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ORKA 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

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

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot456687108129150207%52%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 59.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 60457090110135+$386K−$386K
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
1.00—550.00070.00-0.00-0.00
0.99-0.00600.00160.01-0.01-0.01
0.98-0.01650.00360.01-0.02-0.03
0.95-0.03700.00710.03-0.03-0.05
0.89-0.05750.01240.04-0.05-0.11
0.81-0.08800.01890.07-0.08-0.20
0.69-0.10850.02460.08-0.10-0.31
0.55-0.11900.02760.09-0.11-0.45
0.42-0.11950.02720.09-0.11-0.59
0.30-0.101000.02400.08-0.10-0.70
0.21-0.081050.01950.07-0.08-0.80
0.14-0.061100.01490.05-0.06-0.87
0.09-0.051150.01080.04-0.05-0.92
0.06-0.031200.00760.03-0.03-0.96
0.02-0.021300.00350.01-0.01-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 26 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

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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

spot153565951251553K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 5K call contracts, 4K 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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