Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 16, 11:13 PM ET

SPCX max pain

Spot (delayed)$145
Max pain · Fri, Oct 23$155+6.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$12.77±8.8% by Fri, Oct 23
Put/Call OI1.1391K puts / 80K calls
Call wall$165largest call OI
Put wall$140largest put OI
IV3058.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$4.5Mper 1% move

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 16$147+1.4%today
Mon, Oct 19$155+6.9%3d
Wed, Oct 21$150+3.4%5d
Fri, Oct 23$155+6.9%7d
Mon, Oct 26$150+3.4%10d
Wed, Oct 28$150+3.4%12d
Fri, Oct 30$157.5+8.6%14d
Fri, Nov 6$157.5+8.6%21d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1556094128162196230$676M$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 — 155 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spot1556012613614616519511K11K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SPCX open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 23.

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, Oct 23

spot1556012613614616519516K16K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spot6094128162196230214%71%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 79.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spot60126136146165195+$3.3M−$3.3M
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, Oct 23

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.71-0.421380.02040.07-0.42-0.29
0.69-0.431390.02120.07-0.43-0.31
0.67-0.441400.02190.07-0.44-0.33
0.65-0.451410.02260.07-0.45-0.36
0.62-0.461420.02320.08-0.46-0.38
0.60-0.461430.02370.08-0.47-0.40
0.57-0.471440.02420.08-0.47-0.43
0.55-0.471450.02460.08-0.47-0.45
0.53-0.471460.02490.08-0.47-0.48
0.50-0.471470.02500.08-0.47-0.50
0.47-0.461480.02510.08-0.47-0.53
0.45-0.461490.02510.08-0.46-0.55
0.42-0.451500.02500.08-0.45-0.58
0.36-0.42152.50.02420.08-0.43-0.64
0.31-0.391550.02290.07-0.39-0.70

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 57 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot35115145167.5197.5227.549K0
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

spot595147172.5230300213K213K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 2.4M call contracts, 2.5M 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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