Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 13, 11:30 PM ET

REGN max pain

Spot (delayed)$751.41
Max pain · Fri, Nov 6$720-4.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$58.15±7.7% by Fri, Nov 6
Put/Call OI0.6151 puts / 84 calls
Call wall$730largest call OI
Put wall$720largest put OI
IV3035.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$83Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $670

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 16$760+1.1%2d
Fri, Oct 23$747.5-0.5%9d
Fri, Oct 30$770+2.5%16d
Fri, Nov 6$720-4.2%23d
Fri, Nov 13$690-8.2%30d
Fri, Nov 20$740-1.5%37d
Fri, Nov 27$700-6.8%44d
Fri, Dec 18$740-1.5%65d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

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■ 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 — 720 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 6

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)REGN open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 6.

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 6

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

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 6

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— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 37.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spotflip 670650690730760790840+$51K−$51K
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 6

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.84-0.406800.00290.47-0.41-0.16
0.81-0.446900.00330.52-0.45-0.19
0.78-0.477000.00380.57-0.48-0.22
0.74-0.517100.00420.62-0.51-0.26
0.70-0.547200.00460.67-0.54-0.30
0.65-0.567300.00500.71-0.57-0.35
0.60-0.587400.00530.75-0.58-0.40
0.55-0.597500.00550.77-0.59-0.46
0.49-0.597600.00560.77-0.59-0.51
0.44-0.587700.00560.76-0.59-0.57
0.38-0.567800.00540.74-0.57-0.62
0.33-0.547900.00510.70-0.55-0.67
0.29-0.518000.00470.66-0.52-0.72
0.22-0.458200.00390.57-0.45-0.79
0.16-0.398400.00320.48-0.39-0.85

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 17 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

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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

spot28047061074587010801K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 20K call contracts, 16K 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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