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

RBRK max pain

Spot (delayed)$120.32
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$117-2.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$14.65±12.2% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI1.65354 puts / 215 calls
Call wall$128largest call OI
Put wall$102largest put OI
IV3060.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$9Kper 1% move

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 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

spot11795109123137151165$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 — 117 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot11795106113120128135201201
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)RBRK 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

spot1179510611312012813566
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot9510912313715116591%58%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 62.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot95106114121129136+$31K−$31K
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
0.69-0.141130.01880.10-0.15-0.30
0.68-0.151140.01940.11-0.15-0.32
0.65-0.151150.01990.11-0.15-0.34
0.63-0.151160.02040.11-0.16-0.36
0.61-0.161170.02080.11-0.16-0.39
0.59-0.161180.02110.12-0.16-0.41
0.57-0.161190.02140.12-0.16-0.43
0.55-0.161200.02160.12-0.16-0.45
0.53-0.161210.02180.12-0.16-0.47
0.48-0.161230.02180.12-0.16-0.52
0.46-0.161240.02170.12-0.16-0.54
0.44-0.161250.02160.12-0.16-0.56
0.42-0.161260.02140.12-0.16-0.58
0.40-0.161270.02110.12-0.16-0.60
0.38-0.161280.02080.11-0.15-0.62

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 40 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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