Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 10:13 AM ET

SBET max pain

Spot (delayed)$7.46
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$8.5+13.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.21±16.2% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.26537 puts / 2K calls
Call wall$10largest call OI
Put wall$9largest put OI
IV3074.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$11Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $7

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 30$8+7.2%4d
Fri, Nov 6$9+20.6%11d
Fri, Nov 13$8.5+13.9%18d
Fri, Nov 20$9+20.6%25d
Fri, Nov 27$7-6.2%32d
Fri, Dec 4$7.5+0.5%39d
Fri, Dec 18$9+20.6%53d
Fri, Jan 15$8+7.2%81d
Fri, Apr 16$6-19.6%172d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot8.5468101214$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 — 8.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot8.5478.51011.514578578
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SBET 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

spot8.5478.51011.5145050
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot468101214202%76%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 82.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 7478.51011.514+$4K−$4K
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
0.97-0.0040.02220.00-0.00-0.03
0.89-0.0160.11240.00-0.01-0.11
0.83-0.016.50.16970.01-0.01-0.18
0.72-0.0170.23830.01-0.01-0.28
0.59-0.017.50.28600.01-0.01-0.42
0.45-0.0180.28530.01-0.01-0.56
0.33-0.018.50.25000.01-0.01-0.68
0.25-0.0190.20570.01-0.01-0.77
0.18-0.019.50.16510.01-0.01-0.83
0.14-0.01100.13170.00-0.01-0.87
0.11-0.0110.50.10520.00-0.01-0.91
0.09-0.01110.08440.00-0.01-0.93

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 12 strikes around the money — all 16 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot25.5810.513174K0
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

spot161014254282K82K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 526K call contracts, 149K 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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