Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 27, 8:12 PM ET

TMDX max pain

Spot (delayed)$69.66
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$80+14.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$13.95±20.0% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.831K puts / 1K calls
Call wall$85largest call OI
Put wall$55largest put OI
IV3088.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$11Kper 1% move

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 30$73+4.8%3d
Fri, Nov 6$80+14.8%10d
Fri, Nov 13$76+9.1%17d
Fri, Nov 20$80+14.8%24d
Fri, Nov 27$80+14.8%31d
Fri, Dec 4$60-13.9%38d
Fri, Dec 18$90+29.2%52d
Fri, Jan 15$75+7.7%80d
Fri, Apr 16$80+14.8%171d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot8045638199117135$5M$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 — 80 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot8045657282100130293293
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TMDX 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

spot80456572821001306262
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot45638199117135185%86%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 97.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot45657282100130+$22K−$22K
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
0.78-0.11600.01730.05-0.11-0.23
0.72-0.12630.01990.06-0.12-0.29
0.69-0.13640.02060.06-0.13-0.31
0.67-0.13650.02130.07-0.13-0.33
0.63-0.14670.02240.07-0.14-0.38
0.60-0.14680.02280.07-0.14-0.40
0.58-0.14690.02310.07-0.14-0.43
0.56-0.14700.02340.07-0.14-0.45
0.53-0.14710.02360.07-0.14-0.47
0.51-0.14720.02360.07-0.14-0.50
0.49-0.14730.02360.07-0.14-0.52
0.44-0.14750.02340.07-0.14-0.56
0.36-0.13790.02210.07-0.13-0.65
0.34-0.13800.02170.07-0.13-0.67
0.32-0.13810.02120.06-0.13-0.69

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 32 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot5170778389953K0
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

spot306577981351753K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 25K call contracts, 13K 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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