Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 24, 11:09 PM ET

SEDG max pain

Spot (delayed)$33.26
Max pain · Fri, Nov 6$33-0.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$6.07±18.3% by Fri, Nov 6
Put/Call OI5.784K puts / 709 calls
Call wall$40largest call OI
Put wall$32.5largest put OI
IV3095.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$127Kper 1% move

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 30$32-3.8%4d
Fri, Nov 6$33-0.8%11d
Fri, Nov 13$31-6.8%18d
Fri, Nov 20$37.5+12.7%25d
Fri, Nov 27$32-3.8%32d
Fri, Dec 4$30-9.8%39d
Fri, Dec 18$32.5-2.3%53d
Fri, Jan 15$35+5.2%81d
Fri, Mar 19$40+20.3%144d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot33202530354045$4M$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 — 33 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot33202629.532.535.5401K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SEDG open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 6.

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 6

spot33202629.532.535.540252252
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot202530354045159%110%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 116.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot202629.532.535.540+$70K−$70K
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 6

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.71-0.10300.04350.02-0.10-0.29
0.69-0.1030.50.04520.02-0.10-0.31
0.66-0.10310.04680.02-0.10-0.33
0.64-0.1031.50.04810.02-0.10-0.36
0.61-0.11320.04920.03-0.11-0.39
0.59-0.1132.50.05020.03-0.11-0.41
0.56-0.11330.05080.03-0.11-0.44
0.54-0.1133.50.05130.03-0.11-0.46
0.51-0.11340.05150.03-0.11-0.49
0.49-0.1134.50.05160.03-0.11-0.51
0.46-0.11350.05140.03-0.11-0.54
0.44-0.1135.50.05100.03-0.11-0.56
0.41-0.11360.05040.03-0.11-0.58
0.37-0.10370.04870.03-0.10-0.63
0.33-0.10380.04650.02-0.10-0.67

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 35 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot2429.532.535.538.5442K0
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

spot2.524313847.582.521K21K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 152K call contracts, 79K 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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