Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 14, 1:03 AM ET

SWK max pain

Spot (delayed)$90.71
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$90-0.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$9.35±10.3% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.78618 puts / 795 calls
Call wall$90largest call OI
Put wall$85largest put OI
IV3040.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$44Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $70

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, Oct 16$87.5-3.5%2d
Fri, Nov 20$90-0.8%37d
Fri, Jan 15$82.5-9.1%93d
Fri, Feb 19$95+4.7%128d
Fri, Apr 16$92.5+2.0%184d
Fri, May 21$87.5-3.5%219d
Fri, Aug 20$87.5-3.5%310d
Fri, Jan 21$85-6.3%464d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot90658095110125140$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 — 90 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot90658087.595105120297297
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SWK 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

spot90658087.595105120111111
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot70849811212614058%37%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 39.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 70658087.595105120+$66K−$66K
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
0.98-0.01650.00320.01-0.01-0.02
0.96-0.01700.00620.03-0.02-0.04
0.92-0.03750.01140.05-0.03-0.09
0.84-0.04800.01890.07-0.04-0.16
0.79-0.0582.50.02320.09-0.05-0.21
0.72-0.05850.02740.10-0.05-0.28
0.65-0.0687.50.03100.11-0.06-0.36
0.57-0.06900.03330.12-0.06-0.44
0.48-0.0692.50.03410.12-0.06-0.52
0.40-0.06950.03320.11-0.06-0.61
0.32-0.0597.50.03090.11-0.06-0.69
0.26-0.051000.02770.10-0.05-0.75
0.16-0.041050.02010.07-0.04-0.86
0.09-0.031100.01350.05-0.03-0.93
0.05-0.021150.00870.03-0.02-0.97

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 18 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot32.55572.59011515024K0
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

spot3047.56582.510013524K24K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 69K call contracts, 15K 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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