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

SEDG max pain

Spot (delayed)$33.26
Max pain · Fri, Nov 27$32-3.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$7.58±22.8% by Fri, Nov 27
Put/Call OI1.46409 puts / 281 calls
Call wall$39largest call OI
Put wall$27largest put OI
IV3095.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$1Kper 1% move

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$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

spot32202530354045$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 — 32 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot32202428323640360360
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SEDG open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 27.

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 27

spot322024283236401010
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot202530354045106%86%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 93.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot202429333742+$11K−$11K
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 27

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.84-0.03260.02500.03-0.03-0.16
0.81-0.04270.02820.03-0.04-0.19
0.77-0.04280.03120.03-0.04-0.23
0.73-0.04290.03400.03-0.04-0.26
0.69-0.05300.03650.04-0.05-0.30
0.65-0.05310.03860.04-0.05-0.34
0.61-0.05320.04020.04-0.05-0.39
0.57-0.05330.04130.04-0.05-0.43
0.53-0.05340.04200.04-0.05-0.47
0.49-0.05350.04210.04-0.05-0.51
0.45-0.05360.04180.04-0.05-0.55
0.41-0.05370.04120.04-0.05-0.59
0.37-0.05380.04010.04-0.05-0.62
0.34-0.05390.03880.04-0.05-0.66
0.31-0.05400.03720.04-0.05-0.69

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

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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