Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 25, 11:37 PM ET

STNE max pain

Spot (delayed)$11.5
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$11.47-0.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.28±19.8% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI2.0827K puts / 13K calls
Call wall$12.47largest call OI
Put wall$10.47largest put OI
IV3087.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$69Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $4.47

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, Nov 20$11.47-0.3%25d
Fri, Dec 18$10-13.0%53d
Fri, Jan 15$12.47+8.4%81d
Fri, Apr 16$11-4.3%172d
Fri, Jan 21$5.47-52.4%452d
Fri, Jan 19$15+30.4%816d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot11.471712172227$20M$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 — 11.47 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot11.471.476.4710.4714.4718.4727.4710K10K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)STNE 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

spot11.471.476.4710.4714.4718.4727.4715K15K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot2712172227358%83%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 90.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 4.475.478.4711.4714.4717.4720.47+$150K−$150K
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
0.99-0.004.470.00700.00-0.00-0.01
0.98-0.015.470.01310.00-0.01-0.02
0.96-0.016.470.02280.00-0.01-0.04
0.93-0.017.470.03820.00-0.01-0.07
0.88-0.018.470.06120.01-0.01-0.12
0.80-0.029.470.09120.01-0.02-0.20
0.68-0.0210.470.12110.01-0.02-0.32
0.54-0.0211.470.13900.01-0.02-0.45
0.41-0.0212.470.13790.01-0.02-0.59
0.29-0.0213.470.12180.01-0.02-0.70
0.21-0.0114.470.09950.01-0.01-0.79
0.14-0.0115.470.07760.01-0.01-0.85
0.10-0.0116.470.05910.01-0.01-0.89
0.07-0.0117.470.04450.00-0.01-0.92
0.05-0.0118.470.03340.00-0.01-0.94

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 21 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot0.47610.4713.4717.4727.479K0
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

spot0.474.478.4712.4716.4720.4711K11K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 67K call contracts, 49K 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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