Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 31, 5:21 AM ET

TRP max pain

Spot (delayed)$64.5
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$62.5-3.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.93±4.5% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.382K puts / 5K calls
Call wall$65largest call OI
Put wall$60largest put OI
IV3022.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$1.6Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $52.5

Event risk before this expiration: 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, Nov 20$62.5-3.1%20d
Fri, Dec 18$62.5-3.1%48d
Fri, Jan 15$70+8.5%76d
Fri, Feb 19$62.5-3.1%111d
Fri, May 21$57.5-10.9%202d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot62.5334456677990$13M$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 — 62.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot62.532.55057.56572.5854K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TRP 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

spot62.532.55057.56572.5851111
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot45546372819078%17%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 23.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 52.532.55057.56572.585+$1.4M−$1.4M
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
0.99-0.0047.50.00240.00-0.00-0.01
0.99-0.01500.00410.01-0.01-0.01
0.98-0.0152.50.00710.01-0.01-0.02
0.97-0.01550.01290.01-0.01-0.04
0.94-0.0157.50.02430.02-0.01-0.06
0.87-0.02600.04700.03-0.02-0.13
0.73-0.0362.50.08680.05-0.03-0.27
0.48-0.03650.11590.06-0.03-0.53
0.23-0.0367.50.08550.05-0.03-0.78
0.11-0.02700.04680.03-0.02-0.91
0.06-0.0172.50.02520.02-0.01-0.96
0.03-0.01750.01420.01-0.01-0.99
0.01-0.00800.00540.01-0.00-1.00
0.01-0.00850.00240.000.00-1.00
0.00-0.00900.00120.00—-1.00

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 17 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot455562.570804K0
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

spot32.542.552.562.572.5854K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 7K call contracts, 3K 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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