Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 25, 11:54 PM ET

QXO max pain

Spot (delayed)$10.48
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$11+5.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.53±14.6% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.15885 puts / 6K calls
Call wall$11largest call OI
Put wall$12.5largest put OI
IV3070.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$118Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $8.5

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$11+5.0%4d
Fri, Nov 6$11+5.0%11d
Fri, Nov 13$11+5.0%18d
Fri, Nov 20$12+14.5%25d
Fri, Nov 27$10.5+0.2%32d
Fri, Dec 4$10-4.6%39d
Fri, Dec 18$11+5.0%53d
Fri, Jan 15$13+24.0%81d
Fri, Feb 19$13+24.0%116d
Fri, Mar 19$13+24.0%144d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot11579121416$3M$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 — 11 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot11591113155K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)QXO 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

spot11591113154444
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot579121416159%69%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 75.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 8.55910.51213.515+$115K−$115K
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
0.99-0.0050.00780.00-0.00-0.01
0.97-0.016.50.02400.00-0.01-0.03
0.91-0.0180.06830.00-0.01-0.09
0.88-0.018.50.09470.01-0.01-0.13
0.82-0.0190.12810.01-0.01-0.18
0.75-0.019.50.16640.01-0.01-0.25
0.66-0.02100.20230.01-0.02-0.35
0.55-0.0210.50.22430.01-0.02-0.46
0.44-0.02110.22400.01-0.02-0.57
0.34-0.0211.50.20450.01-0.02-0.67
0.26-0.01120.17620.01-0.01-0.74
0.20-0.0112.50.14730.01-0.01-0.80
0.16-0.01130.12180.01-0.01-0.85
0.13-0.0113.50.10070.01-0.01-0.88
0.11-0.01140.08370.01-0.01-0.91

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 19 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot5810.51315.511K0
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

spot38.51317.52635106K106K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 526K call contracts, 176K 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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