Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 17, 11:09 PM ET

TOL max pain

Spot (delayed)$133.7
Max pain · Thu, Jun 17$110-17.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$30.8±23.0% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI1.19112 puts / 94 calls
Call wall$75largest call OI
Put wall$95largest put OI
IV3034.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$1Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $90

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 20$135+1.0%33d
Fri, Dec 18$140+4.7%61d
Fri, Jan 15$130-2.8%89d
Fri, Mar 19$140+4.7%152d
Thu, Jun 17$110-17.7%242d
Fri, Sep 17$110-17.7%334d
Fri, Jan 21$130-2.8%460d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot11075106137168199230$1M$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 — 110 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TOL open contracts per strike for Thu, Jun 17.

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 · Thu, Jun 17

spot1107510012515017522044
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot7510613716819923041%30%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 35.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spotflip 9075100125150175220+$2K−$2K
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 · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.88-0.011000.00480.22-0.02-0.12
0.85-0.021050.00570.26-0.02-0.15
0.82-0.021100.00660.29-0.02-0.19
0.78-0.021150.00750.33-0.03-0.23
0.73-0.031200.00830.36-0.03-0.28
0.69-0.031250.00910.39-0.03-0.33
0.64-0.031300.00970.41-0.03-0.38
0.59-0.031350.01010.43-0.03-0.43
0.54-0.031400.01040.43-0.03-0.49
0.49-0.031450.01040.44-0.03-0.54
0.45-0.031500.01040.43-0.03-0.59
0.40-0.031550.01020.42-0.03-0.64
0.36-0.031600.00980.41-0.03-0.69
0.32-0.031650.00940.39-0.03-0.74
0.28-0.031700.00890.37-0.03-0.78

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 27 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

spot50801101401702002K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 9K call contracts, 14K 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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