Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 2, 5:26 PM ET

RDDT max pain

Spot (delayed)$93.61
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$119+27.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$9.05±9.7% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.804K puts / 5K calls
Call wall$200largest call OI
Put wall$90largest put OI
IV3061.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$182Kper 1% move

Event risk before this expiration: 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, Nov 6$100+6.8%4d
Fri, Nov 13$119+27.1%11d
Fri, Nov 20$135+44.2%18d
Fri, Nov 27$125+33.5%25d
Fri, Dec 4$95+1.5%32d
Fri, Dec 11$95+1.5%39d
Fri, Dec 18$125+33.5%46d
Fri, Jan 15$145+54.9%74d
Fri, Feb 19$130+38.9%109d
Fri, Mar 19$140+49.6%137d
Fri, Apr 16$130+38.9%165d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot11975104133162191220$39M$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 — 119 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot1197596111130148180569569
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)RDDT 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

spot1197596111130148180427427
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot75104133162191220207%51%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 69.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot7596111130148180+$156K−$156K
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
0.91-0.08800.01410.03-0.09-0.09
0.81-0.14850.02410.04-0.14-0.20
0.72-0.17880.02980.06-0.17-0.28
0.69-0.18890.03140.06-0.18-0.31
0.66-0.19900.03270.06-0.19-0.35
0.62-0.20910.03390.06-0.20-0.38
0.58-0.20920.03470.06-0.20-0.42
0.55-0.20930.03530.07-0.20-0.45
0.48-0.20950.03560.07-0.20-0.52
0.45-0.20960.03530.07-0.20-0.56
0.38-0.19980.03400.06-0.19-0.63
0.32-0.181000.03180.06-0.18-0.69
0.29-0.171010.03040.06-0.17-0.72
0.26-0.161020.02900.05-0.16-0.74
0.23-0.151030.02740.05-0.15-0.77

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 60 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot75991161401652154K0
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

spot358512517024035035K35K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 295K call contracts, 216K 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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