Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 25, 11:53 PM ET

PHM max pain

Spot (delayed)$121.19
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$118-2.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$8.75±7.2% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI1.80308 puts / 171 calls
Call wall$107largest call OI
Put wall$118largest put OI
IV3035.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$86Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $107

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 30$112-7.6%4d
Fri, Nov 6$115-5.1%11d
Fri, Nov 13$118-2.6%18d
Fri, Nov 20$114-5.9%25d
Fri, Nov 27$115-5.1%32d
Fri, Dec 18$120-1.0%53d
Fri, Jan 15$120-1.0%81d
Fri, Mar 19$120-1.0%144d
Fri, Apr 16$120-1.0%172d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot11895104113122131140$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 — 118 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot11895108113118124140125125
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)PHM 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

spot118951081131181241401010
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot9510411312213114086%32%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 37.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 10795108113118124140+$40K−$40K
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
0.76-0.091140.02680.09-0.09-0.24
0.73-0.091150.02880.10-0.09-0.27
0.70-0.091160.03060.10-0.09-0.30
0.67-0.101170.03230.10-0.10-0.33
0.64-0.101180.03390.11-0.10-0.36
0.60-0.101190.03510.11-0.10-0.40
0.57-0.101200.03610.11-0.10-0.43
0.49-0.101220.03700.12-0.10-0.51
0.46-0.101230.03680.12-0.10-0.55
0.42-0.101240.03640.11-0.10-0.58
0.39-0.101250.03560.11-0.10-0.62
0.35-0.101260.03440.11-0.10-0.65
0.29-0.091280.03150.10-0.09-0.71
0.14-0.061350.01950.07-0.06-0.86
0.09-0.051400.01320.05-0.05-0.91

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

spot801111161221271339080
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

spot50931061191321501K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 9K call contracts, 9K 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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