Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 17, 12:42 AM ET

ROKU max pain

Spot (delayed)$154.54
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$150-2.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$7.37±4.8% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.3322 puts / 67 calls
Call wall$150largest call OI
Put wall$150largest put OI
IV3019.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$37Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $149

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$144-6.8%6d
Fri, Oct 30$110-28.8%13d
Fri, Nov 6$149-3.6%20d
Fri, Nov 13$150-2.9%27d
Fri, Nov 20$150-2.9%34d
Fri, Nov 27$105-32.1%41d
Fri, Dec 18$110-28.8%62d
Fri, Jan 15$95-38.5%90d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot15095109123137151165$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 — 150 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot150951151451501602727
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ROKU 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

spot150951151451501608282
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot14514915315716116529%16%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 21.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 14995115145150160+$24K−$24K
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
0.97-0.05950.00150.03-0.05-0.03
0.96-0.051100.00270.04-0.05-0.04
0.95-0.051150.00340.04-0.05-0.05
0.93-0.051250.00560.06-0.05-0.07
0.81-0.061450.02200.12-0.06-0.19
0.74-0.061490.03170.14-0.06-0.27
0.71-0.061500.03470.15-0.06-0.29
0.52-0.061550.04630.17-0.06-0.49
0.30-0.051600.03990.15-0.06-0.71
0.19-0.051650.02590.12-0.05-0.83

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

spot80120143149162.51851770
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

spot3085137148172.52057K7K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 39K call contracts, 43K 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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