Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 27, 5:31 PM ET

TECK max pain

Spot (delayed)$70.83
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$60-15.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$13±18.4% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI1.332K puts / 1K calls
Call wall$70largest call OI
Put wall$55largest put OI
IV3043.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$41Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $40

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 · FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 · Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · 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, Sep 4$63-11.1%7d
Fri, Sep 11$67-5.4%14d
Fri, Sep 18$60-15.3%21d
Fri, Sep 25$64-9.6%28d
Fri, Oct 2$62-12.5%35d
Fri, Oct 16$70-1.2%49d
Fri, Nov 20$60-15.3%84d
Fri, Dec 18$55-22.3%112d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot602540557085100$4M$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 — 60 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot6025414655801K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TECK 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

spot6025414655801010
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot2540557085100132%44%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 47.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 402541465580+$78K$78K
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
0.95-0.00470.00510.03-0.01-0.05
0.95-0.01480.00570.04-0.01-0.05
0.94-0.01490.00630.04-0.01-0.06
0.94-0.01500.00700.04-0.01-0.07
0.88-0.02550.01120.07-0.02-0.12
0.81-0.02600.01630.10-0.03-0.20
0.70-0.03650.02100.12-0.03-0.30
0.59-0.04700.02400.13-0.04-0.42
0.47-0.04750.02460.14-0.04-0.55
0.36-0.04800.02300.13-0.03-0.66
0.27-0.03850.02010.11-0.03-0.75
0.20-0.03900.01670.10-0.02-0.83
0.14-0.02950.01350.08-0.02-0.89
0.10-0.021000.01060.06-0.01-0.93

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 25 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot20405967748213K0
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

spot15405060708014K14K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 42K call contracts, 22K 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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