Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 21, 10:01 AM ET

TEM max pain

Spot (delayed)$67.3
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$70+4.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$11.88±17.6% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.83915 puts / 1K calls
Call wall$85largest call OI
Put wall$70largest put OI
IV3085.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$10Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $87

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 23$69+2.5%2d
Fri, Oct 30$70+4.0%9d
Fri, Nov 6$70+4.0%16d
Fri, Nov 13$70+4.0%23d
Fri, Nov 20$65-3.4%30d
Fri, Nov 27$69+2.5%37d
Fri, Dec 18$65-3.4%58d
Fri, Jan 15$55-18.3%86d
Fri, Feb 19$70+4.0%121d
Fri, Mar 19$70+4.0%149d
Fri, Apr 16$70+4.0%177d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot7045597387101115$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 — 70 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot70456270788694191191
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TEM 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

spot704562707886943434
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot45597387101115140%79%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 86.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 87456270788694+$15K−$15K
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
0.73-0.11600.02180.06-0.11-0.28
0.70-0.11610.02270.06-0.11-0.30
0.68-0.11620.02350.06-0.12-0.33
0.65-0.12630.02430.06-0.12-0.35
0.63-0.12640.02490.07-0.12-0.38
0.60-0.12650.02540.07-0.12-0.40
0.58-0.13660.02570.07-0.13-0.43
0.55-0.13670.02600.07-0.13-0.46
0.52-0.13680.02610.07-0.13-0.48
0.50-0.13690.02610.07-0.13-0.51
0.47-0.13700.02610.07-0.13-0.53
0.45-0.13710.02590.07-0.13-0.56
0.43-0.13720.02560.07-0.13-0.58
0.40-0.12730.02520.07-0.13-0.60
0.38-0.12740.02480.07-0.12-0.63

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 47 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot40576777871005K0
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

spot17.55365778912030K30K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 232K call contracts, 127K 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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