Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 13, 10:24 AM ET

SGI max pain

Spot (delayed)$66.76
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$70+4.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$10.85±16.3% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.02551 puts / 28K calls
Call wall$85largest call OI
Put wall$50largest put OI
Net GEX+$3.0Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $70

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 · Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · 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, Sep 18$65-2.6%5d
Fri, Oct 16$70+4.9%33d
Fri, Nov 20$70+4.9%68d
Fri, Dec 18$65-2.6%96d
Fri, Jan 15$65-2.6%124d
Fri, Feb 19$65-2.6%159d
Fri, Mar 19$65-2.6%187d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot70355779101123145$186M$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 — 70 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SGI 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

spot7035557595115140741741
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot35577910112314594%37%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 46.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 7035557595115140+$1.2M$1.2M
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
0.98-0.01350.00230.02-0.01-0.03
0.96-0.01400.00390.02-0.01-0.04
0.94-0.02450.00640.04-0.02-0.06
0.90-0.02500.01020.05-0.02-0.10
0.84-0.03550.01580.07-0.03-0.16
0.75-0.03600.02300.09-0.03-0.26
0.61-0.04650.02940.11-0.04-0.40
0.46-0.04700.03090.12-0.04-0.55
0.33-0.03750.02740.11-0.04-0.68
0.24-0.03800.02220.09-0.03-0.78
0.17-0.03850.01750.08-0.03-0.85
0.13-0.02900.01370.06-0.03-0.90
0.10-0.02950.01090.05-0.03-0.93
0.08-0.021000.00880.04-0.02-0.95

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 22 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot4065759011013018K0
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

spot254055709012019K19K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 52K call contracts, 5K 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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