Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 12:37 AM ET

TCOM max pain

Spot (delayed)$39.9
Max pain · Thu, Jun 17$45+12.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$9.15±22.9% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI0.828K puts / 9K calls
Call wall$45largest call OI
Put wall$45largest put OI
IV3034.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$55Kper 1% move

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+0.2%25d
Fri, Dec 18$45+12.8%53d
Fri, Jan 15$50+25.3%81d
Fri, Mar 19$40+0.2%144d
Thu, Jun 17$45+12.8%234d
Fri, Jan 21$45+12.8%452d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot45203142536475$21M$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 — 45 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot4520304050655K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TCOM 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

spot45203040506555
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot20314253647579%33%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 35.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot2030405065+$112K−$112K
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
0.97-0.00200.00360.02-0.00-0.03
0.95-0.0022.50.00570.03-0.00-0.04
0.93-0.00250.00850.04-0.00-0.06
0.86-0.01300.01650.07-0.01-0.14
0.74-0.01350.02640.10-0.01-0.26
0.67-0.0137.50.03070.12-0.01-0.34
0.58-0.01400.03360.12-0.01-0.43
0.50-0.0142.50.03480.13-0.01-0.52
0.42-0.01450.03430.13-0.01-0.60
0.29-0.01500.02970.11-0.01-0.76
0.19-0.01550.02340.09-0.01-0.87
0.13-0.01600.01760.07-0.01-0.95
0.09-0.00650.01300.05-0.00-0.99
0.06-0.00700.00960.04-0.00-1.00

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 15 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot2537.54560851109K0
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

spot2032.542.5558511512K12K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 65K call contracts, 54K 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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