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

REGN max pain

Spot (delayed)$751.41
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$690-8.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$64.2±8.5% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.2610 puts / 38 calls
Call wall$690largest call OI
Put wall$680largest put OI
IV3035.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$60Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $690

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 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

spot690630694758822886950$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 — 690 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)REGN 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

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

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot63069475882288695048%36%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 36.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 690630690750780880+$22K−$22K
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
0.92-0.216300.00140.32-0.23-0.08
0.88-0.296600.00220.45-0.30-0.12
0.83-0.346800.00280.56-0.36-0.17
0.80-0.376900.00320.61-0.39-0.20
0.69-0.467200.00430.77-0.47-0.31
0.65-0.487300.00460.82-0.48-0.35
0.60-0.497400.00480.85-0.50-0.40
0.55-0.507500.00500.87-0.51-0.45
0.50-0.507600.00500.88-0.51-0.50
0.45-0.507700.00500.87-0.51-0.55
0.40-0.497800.00490.85-0.50-0.60
0.21-0.388300.00350.64-0.39-0.80
0.13-0.298700.00240.46-0.29-0.89
0.11-0.268800.00210.42-0.27-0.90
0.05-0.159500.00100.22-0.16-0.97

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. 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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