Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 12:03 AM ET

SNY max pain

Spot (delayed)$41.25
Max pain · Thu, Jun 17$47.5+15.2% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$7.6±18.4% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI0.766K puts / 8K calls
Call wall$60largest call OI
Put wall$45largest put OI
IV3030.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$103Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $25

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 20$40-3.0%25d
Fri, Dec 18$42.5+3.0%53d
Fri, Jan 15$42.5+3.0%81d
Fri, Mar 19$42.5+3.0%144d
Thu, Jun 17$47.5+15.2%234d
Fri, Dec 17$22.5-45.5%417d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot47.5233344546575$19M$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 — 47.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot47.522.532.542.552.5654K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SNY open contracts per strike for Thu, Jun 17.

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 · Thu, Jun 17

spot47.522.532.542.552.5654545
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot23334454657540%21%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 26.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spotflip 2522.532.542.552.565+$93K−$93K
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 · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
1.00—22.50.00130.01-0.00-0.02
1.00—250.00260.01-0.00-0.04
0.990.0027.50.00490.01-0.00-0.06
0.97-0.00300.00900.03-0.00-0.09
0.94-0.0032.50.01570.04-0.00-0.15
0.89-0.00350.02520.06-0.01-0.22
0.80-0.0137.50.03650.08-0.01-0.32
0.69-0.01400.04650.11-0.01-0.43
0.57-0.0142.50.05210.12-0.01-0.55
0.45-0.01450.05210.12-0.01-0.66
0.34-0.0147.50.04730.11-0.01-0.75
0.24-0.01500.04000.10-0.00-0.82
0.18-0.0152.50.03240.08-0.00-0.87
0.13-0.00550.02540.07-0.00-0.91
0.09-0.0057.50.01950.05-0.00-0.94

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 19 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot2535455565806K0
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

spot2030405060708K8K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 54K call contracts, 41K 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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