Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 10, 3:44 AM ET

SBUX max pain

Spot (delayed)$90.83
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$95+4.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$8.93±9.8% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.6516K puts / 24K calls
Call wall$95largest call OI
Put wall$95largest put OI
IV3037.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$589Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $105
Earnings · expectedWed, Oct 28usually before the open

Event risk before this expiration: CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · 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$95+4.6%5d
Fri, Oct 23$95+4.6%12d
Fri, Oct 30$95+4.6%19d← 1st expiry after earnings (Wed, Oct 28)
Fri, Nov 6$95+4.6%26d
Fri, Nov 13$96+5.7%33d
Fri, Nov 20$95+4.6%40d
Fri, Nov 27$90-0.9%47d
Fri, Dec 18$90-0.9%68d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot95507294116138160$131M$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 — 95 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot955070901101301508K8K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SBUX 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

spot955070901101301504K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot507294116138160100%32%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 36.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 105507090110130150+$844K−$844K
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
1.00-0.00550.00040.00-0.00-0.00
1.00-0.00600.00070.00-0.00-0.01
0.99-0.00650.00160.01-0.00-0.01
0.98-0.01700.00360.01-0.01-0.02
0.96-0.01750.00880.03-0.01-0.06
0.88-0.03800.01910.06-0.03-0.14
0.75-0.04850.03110.10-0.04-0.28
0.57-0.05900.03860.12-0.05-0.46
0.38-0.05950.03740.12-0.05-0.64
0.22-0.041000.02910.09-0.04-0.79
0.11-0.021050.01860.06-0.02-0.90
0.06-0.011100.01080.04-0.01-0.95
0.03-0.011150.00640.02-0.01-0.97
0.02-0.011200.00420.02-0.01-0.98
0.01-0.011250.00300.01-0.01-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 23 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot5087951031111256K0
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

spot40839310311312542K42K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 248K call contracts, 241K 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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