Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 27, 5:51 PM ET

PLTR max pain

Spot (delayed)$199.73
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$195-2.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$25.53±12.8% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI1.2117K puts / 14K calls
Call wall$210largest call OI
Put wall$155largest put OI
IV3061.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$837Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $85
Earnings · expectedMon, Nov 2usually after the close

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$192.5-3.6%3d
Fri, Nov 6$192.5-3.6%10d← 1st expiry after earnings (Mon, Nov 2)
Fri, Nov 13$195-2.4%17d
Fri, Nov 20$175-12.4%24d
Fri, Nov 27$190-4.9%31d
Fri, Dec 4$200+0.1%38d
Fri, Dec 18$140-29.9%52d
Fri, Jan 15$125-37.4%80d
Fri, Feb 19$160-19.9%115d
Fri, Mar 19$165-17.4%143d
Fri, Apr 16$195-2.4%171d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot19560105150195240285$183M$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 — 195 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot19560140172.5192.5212.52502K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)PLTR open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 13.

Open-interest change · 2026-10-23 → 2026-10-26

spot60145172.5190207.5240+329−329
Net contracts opened (up, green) or closed (down, red) per strike since the previous snapshot: where the walls are building and where they’re unwinding. Only strikes observed on both days are compared. Biggest moves: 160 +329 · 210 +169 · 155 +124 · 235 +107

Volume by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot19560140172.5192.5212.5250319319
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot60105150195240285215%71%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 73.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 85100145175195215255+$595K−$595K
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
0.74-0.31182.50.00990.14-0.31-0.26
0.71-0.331850.01040.15-0.33-0.29
0.68-0.34187.50.01090.15-0.34-0.32
0.66-0.351900.01130.16-0.35-0.34
0.63-0.36192.50.01170.16-0.36-0.38
0.60-0.371950.01200.17-0.37-0.41
0.56-0.37197.50.01220.17-0.37-0.44
0.53-0.382000.01240.17-0.38-0.47
0.50-0.38202.50.01240.17-0.38-0.50
0.47-0.372050.01240.17-0.38-0.53
0.44-0.37207.50.01240.17-0.37-0.56
0.41-0.362100.01220.17-0.36-0.59
0.38-0.36212.50.01200.17-0.36-0.62
0.36-0.352150.01170.16-0.35-0.65
0.30-0.322200.01100.15-0.32-0.70

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 48 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot60135165192.522026519K0
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.

Max pain history — nearest expiry vs price

07-2808-1208-2709-1109-2810-13208.77121.15
— max pain (nearest expiry)- - delayed closeOne point per snapshot day since 2026-07-28; unobserved days are gaps, not guesses.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot565105167.5205290115K115K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1.6M call contracts, 1.7M 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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