Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 21, 3:09 AM ET

ROG max pain

Spot (delayed)$136.81
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$145+6.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$16.05±11.7% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.6357 puts / 91 calls
Call wall$140largest call OI
Put wall$150largest put OI
IV3048.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$11Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $140

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, Nov 20$145+6.0%30d
Fri, Dec 18$120-12.3%58d
Fri, Mar 19$120-12.3%149d
Fri, May 21$70-48.8%212d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot14585108131154177200$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 — 145 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot145851051251451601752525
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ROG open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.

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 20

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

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot85108131154177200138%46%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 50.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 14085105125145160175+$10K−$10K
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 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.96-0.05900.00260.04-0.05-0.04
0.94-0.05950.00340.04-0.06-0.05
0.91-0.071050.00550.06-0.07-0.09
0.89-0.071100.00720.07-0.08-0.11
0.81-0.091200.01210.11-0.10-0.19
0.75-0.101250.01540.13-0.11-0.25
0.66-0.111300.01850.14-0.12-0.33
0.46-0.121400.02050.16-0.12-0.53
0.37-0.121450.01900.15-0.12-0.63
0.30-0.121500.01670.14-0.11-0.70
0.24-0.111550.01430.12-0.10-0.76
0.19-0.101600.01210.11-0.10-0.80
0.16-0.091650.01020.10-0.09-0.84
0.13-0.081700.00870.09-0.08-0.87
0.11-0.081750.00740.08-0.07-0.89

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

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1K call contracts, 195 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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