Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 23, 10:02 AM ET

RBRK max pain

Spot (delayed)$120.32
Max pain · Fri, Oct 23$114-5.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$3.45±2.9% by Fri, Oct 23
Put/Call OI0.482K puts / 4K calls
Call wall$125largest call OI
Put wall$90largest put OI
IV3060.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2.4Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $115

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 23$114-5.3%today
Fri, Oct 30$110-8.6%7d
Fri, Nov 6$112-6.9%14d
Fri, Nov 13$117-2.8%21d
Fri, Nov 20$110-8.6%28d
Fri, Nov 27$109-9.4%35d
Fri, Dec 18$110-8.6%56d
Fri, Jan 15$80-33.5%84d
Fri, Apr 16$110-8.6%175d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot114658095110125140$7M$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 — 114 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spot1146595104111118125833833
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)RBRK open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 23.

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, Oct 23

spot1146595104111118125712712
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spot90100110120130140245%62%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 66.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spotflip 11590101108115122131+$851K−$851K
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, Oct 23

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.93-0.171130.02410.01-0.17-0.07
0.91-0.231140.03090.01-0.24-0.09
0.87-0.331150.03900.01-0.33-0.13
0.83-0.461160.04810.02-0.46-0.17
0.78-0.641170.05770.02-0.64-0.22
0.72-0.871180.06690.02-0.87-0.28
0.65-1.181190.07460.02-1.18-0.35
0.57-1.521200.07960.03-1.52-0.43
0.49-1.651210.08110.03-1.65-0.51
0.41-1.421220.07900.03-1.42-0.59
0.34-1.091230.07380.02-1.09-0.66
0.27-0.821240.06630.02-0.81-0.73
0.22-0.611250.05760.02-0.60-0.78
0.17-0.451260.04870.02-0.45-0.83
0.10-0.241280.03280.01-0.24-0.90

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 42 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot55951051151251359880
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

spot306082.510211815010K10K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 70K call contracts, 28K 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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