Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 16, 10:02 AM ET

TGTX max pain

Spot (delayed)$56.24
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$45-20.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$8.65±15.4% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.524K puts / 7K calls
Call wall$60largest call OI
Put wall$30largest put OI
IV3060.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$404Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $22

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$55-2.2%today
Fri, Nov 20$45-20.0%35d
Fri, Dec 18$65+15.6%63d
Fri, Jan 15$32-43.1%91d
Fri, Feb 19$55-2.2%126d
Fri, May 21$45-20.0%217d
Fri, Sep 17$40-28.9%336d
Fri, Jan 21$35-37.8%462d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot45203346597285$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 · Fri, Nov 20

spot452027344046601K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TGTX 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

spot45202734404660179179
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot203346597285229%58%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 61.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 22202735414765+$149K−$149K
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
0.90-0.03440.01520.03-0.03-0.10
0.88-0.03450.01720.04-0.03-0.12
0.86-0.03460.01940.04-0.04-0.14
0.84-0.04470.02170.04-0.04-0.16
0.81-0.04480.02400.05-0.04-0.19
0.79-0.04490.02630.05-0.04-0.21
0.76-0.04500.02850.06-0.05-0.24
0.58-0.06550.03640.07-0.06-0.42
0.40-0.06600.03620.07-0.06-0.60
0.26-0.05650.02970.06-0.05-0.75
0.16-0.04700.02170.04-0.03-0.85
0.10-0.03750.01490.03-0.02-0.91
0.06-0.02800.01000.02-0.01-0.95
0.04-0.01850.00660.01-0.00-0.98

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 36 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot2032384450803K0
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

spot1325323946657K7K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 44K call contracts, 18K 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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