Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 13, 4:03 PM ET

PARR max pain

Spot (delayed)$89.37
Max pain · Fri, Nov 19$75-16.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$44.05±49.3% by Fri, Nov 19
Put/Call OI0.68278 puts / 407 calls
Call wall$85largest call OI
Put wall$75largest put OI
IV3065.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$5Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $75
Earnings · expectedTue, Nov 3filing-derived

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 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 16$50-44.1%3d
Fri, Nov 20$75-16.1%38d← 1st expiry after earnings (Tue, Nov 3)
Fri, Dec 18$60-32.9%66d
Fri, Jan 15$70-21.7%94d
Fri, Mar 19$65-27.3%157d
Fri, May 21$85-4.9%220d
Fri, Aug 20$90+0.7%311d
Fri, Nov 19$75-16.1%402d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot7540577491108125$2M$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 — 75 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 19

spot7540557085100115194194
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)PARR open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 19.

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 19

spot754055708510011511
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 19

spot4057749110812567%58%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 60.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 19

spotflip 7540557085100115+$9K−$9K
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 19

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.86-0.01550.00350.20-0.02-0.13
0.84-0.01600.00400.23-0.02-0.16
0.81-0.01650.00460.25-0.02-0.19
0.78-0.02700.00500.28-0.02-0.22
0.74-0.02750.00550.30-0.02-0.26
0.71-0.02800.00590.32-0.02-0.29
0.68-0.02850.00620.33-0.03-0.33
0.65-0.02900.00650.34-0.03-0.36
0.61-0.02950.00670.35-0.03-0.40
0.58-0.031000.00680.36-0.03-0.43
0.55-0.031050.00700.37-0.03-0.47
0.52-0.031100.00700.37-0.03-0.50
0.49-0.031150.00700.37-0.03-0.53
0.47-0.031200.00700.37-0.03-0.56
0.44-0.031250.00700.37-0.03-0.59

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 18 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot254565851051253K0
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

spot22.54060801001203K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 13K call contracts, 3K 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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