Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 22, 1:56 AM ET

PG max pain

Spot (delayed)$146.08
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$145-0.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$10.03±6.9% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI1.0114K puts / 13K calls
Call wall$160largest call OI
Put wall$130largest put OI
IV3020.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$1.1Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $80
Earnings · expectedFri, Oct 23usually before the open

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · 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, Sep 25$146-0.1%4d
Fri, Oct 2$145-0.7%11d
Fri, Oct 9$146-0.1%18d
Fri, Oct 16$145-0.7%25d
Fri, Oct 23$144-1.4%32d← 1st expiry after earnings (Fri, Oct 23)
Fri, Oct 30$143-2.1%39d
Fri, Nov 20$145-0.7%60d
Fri, Dec 18$145-0.7%88d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot14575100125150175200$76M$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 20

spot145751051251451651855K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)PG 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

spot14575105125145165185116116
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot9511613715817920066%17%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 21.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 8075105125145165185+$2.0M$2.0M
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
0.991100.00130.01-0.01-0.02
0.99-0.001150.00210.02-0.01-0.02
0.98-0.011200.00370.03-0.01-0.04
0.96-0.011250.00690.05-0.01-0.06
0.92-0.021300.01250.09-0.02-0.11
0.84-0.031350.02040.15-0.03-0.19
0.72-0.041400.02850.20-0.04-0.31
0.56-0.041450.03330.23-0.04-0.46
0.40-0.041500.03220.23-0.04-0.62
0.26-0.031550.02660.19-0.03-0.76
0.15-0.021600.01910.14-0.02-0.87
0.08-0.011650.01220.09-0.01-0.94
0.05-0.011700.00780.06-0.01-0.96
0.03-0.011750.00530.04-0.00-0.98
0.02-0.011800.00370.04-0.00-0.98

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 24 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot95137142147155167.56K0
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

spot70120137147167.520537K37K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 172K call contracts, 132K 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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