Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 14, 1:15 PM ET

TKR max pain

Spot (delayed)$131.3
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$85-35.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$22.1±16.8% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.0459 puts / 2K calls
Call wall$190largest call OI
Put wall$105largest put OI
IV3036.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$232Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $65

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, Aug 21$130-1.0%6d
Fri, Sep 18$130-1.0%34d
Fri, Nov 20$85-35.3%97d
Fri, Dec 18$90-31.5%125d
Fri, Mar 19$85-35.3%216d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

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■ 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 — 85 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TKR 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

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

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot609012015018021079%35%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 40.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 656085110135160185+$74K$74K
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
0.92-0.02950.00440.10-0.03-0.08
0.89-0.021000.00560.13-0.03-0.11
0.86-0.031050.00710.15-0.04-0.14
0.82-0.031100.00870.18-0.04-0.18
0.77-0.041150.01030.21-0.04-0.23
0.71-0.051200.01180.23-0.05-0.29
0.64-0.051250.01310.25-0.05-0.36
0.57-0.051300.01400.27-0.05-0.43
0.50-0.051350.01430.27-0.06-0.50
0.43-0.051400.01420.27-0.05-0.57
0.37-0.051450.01370.26-0.05-0.64
0.31-0.051500.01280.24-0.05-0.70
0.26-0.041550.01170.22-0.04-0.76
0.22-0.041600.01050.20-0.04-0.81
0.18-0.041650.00930.18-0.03-0.85

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 30 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

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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

spot45751051351651951K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 8K call contracts, 2K 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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