Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 31, 11:02 PM ET

SVIX max pain

Spot (delayed)$25.6
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$27+5.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$3.9±15.2% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.331K puts / 3K calls
Call wall$27.5largest call OI
Put wall$26.5largest put OI
IV3080.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$68Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $19

Event risk before this expiration: 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 6$29+13.3%5d
Fri, Nov 13$27+5.5%12d
Fri, Nov 20$25-2.3%19d
Fri, Nov 27$29.5+15.2%26d
Fri, Dec 4$30+17.2%33d
Fri, Dec 11$27.5+7.4%40d
Fri, Dec 18$25-2.3%47d
Fri, Jan 15$18-29.7%75d
Fri, Mar 19$27+5.5%138d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot27141924303540$3M$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 — 27 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot271421.525.52932.538744744
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SVIX open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 13.

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 13

spot271421.525.52932.538143143
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot172226313540221%68%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 97.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 191421.525.52932.538+$42K−$42K
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 13

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.83-0.0621.50.04960.01-0.05-0.18
0.80-0.06220.05470.01-0.06-0.21
0.74-0.06230.06560.02-0.06-0.26
0.71-0.0723.50.07100.02-0.06-0.30
0.67-0.07240.07620.02-0.06-0.33
0.63-0.0724.50.08110.02-0.07-0.37
0.59-0.07250.08540.02-0.07-0.41
0.55-0.0725.50.08880.02-0.06-0.46
0.50-0.07260.09120.02-0.06-0.50
0.45-0.0626.50.09230.02-0.06-0.55
0.41-0.06270.09190.02-0.06-0.59
0.36-0.0627.50.09000.02-0.06-0.64
0.32-0.05280.08670.02-0.05-0.68
0.27-0.0528.50.08220.02-0.05-0.72
0.23-0.04290.07660.01-0.04-0.76

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 38 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot142125.52932.5382K0
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

spot11220.52631.5394K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 48K call contracts, 39K 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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