Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 27, 2:09 AM ET

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Spot (delayed)$150.51
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$130-13.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$30.8±20.5% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.658K puts / 13K calls
Call wall$145largest call OI
Put wall$120largest put OI
IV3043.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$1.1Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $140

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 · 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, Aug 28$145-3.7%1d
Fri, Sep 4$155+3.0%8d
Fri, Sep 11$143-5.0%15d
Fri, Sep 18$125-16.9%22d
Fri, Sep 25$146-3.0%29d
Fri, Oct 2$137-9.0%36d
Fri, Oct 16$135-10.3%50d
Fri, Nov 20$130-13.6%85d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1305090130170210250$118M$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 — 130 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot13050801101401702002K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SHOP 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

spot1305080110140170200300300
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot5090130170210250128%51%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 53.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 1405080110140170200+$286K$286K
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
0.88-0.031150.00500.15-0.05-0.12
0.84-0.041200.00590.18-0.06-0.16
0.81-0.051250.00680.20-0.06-0.20
0.76-0.061300.00770.23-0.07-0.24
0.72-0.071350.00850.25-0.08-0.28
0.67-0.081400.00910.26-0.08-0.33
0.62-0.081450.00960.28-0.08-0.38
0.57-0.081500.01000.29-0.09-0.43
0.52-0.091550.01020.29-0.09-0.48
0.47-0.091600.01020.29-0.09-0.54
0.43-0.091650.01000.29-0.08-0.58
0.38-0.081700.00980.28-0.08-0.63
0.34-0.081750.00940.27-0.07-0.67
0.30-0.081800.00890.25-0.07-0.71
0.27-0.071850.00840.24-0.06-0.75

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 36 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot801151261381491755K0
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

spot307511014517522092K92K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 518K call contracts, 265K 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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