Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 1, 1:37 AM ET

TRU max pain

Spot (delayed)$76.79
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$72.5-5.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$7.48±9.7% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.814K puts / 5K calls
Call wall$85largest call OI
Put wall$60largest put OI
IV3048.3%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$662Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $77.5

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$72.5-5.6%19d
Fri, Dec 18$80+4.2%47d
Fri, Jan 15$70-8.8%75d
Fri, Mar 19$55-28.4%138d
Thu, Jun 17$100+30.2%228d
Fri, Jan 21$62.5-18.6%446d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot72.54858697990100$9M$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 — 72.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot72.547.557.56572.580903K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TRU 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

spot72.547.557.56572.5809066
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot4858697990100117%45%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 50.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 77.547.557.56572.58090+$279K−$279K
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
0.95-0.03600.00810.02-0.03-0.05
0.94-0.0362.50.01130.02-0.03-0.06
0.91-0.04650.01600.03-0.04-0.09
0.86-0.0567.50.02260.04-0.05-0.14
0.80-0.06700.03010.05-0.06-0.21
0.71-0.0872.50.03680.06-0.08-0.30
0.61-0.09750.04170.07-0.09-0.40
0.50-0.0977.50.04390.07-0.09-0.51
0.39-0.08800.04290.07-0.08-0.61
0.29-0.0782.50.03890.06-0.07-0.71
0.21-0.06850.03270.05-0.06-0.80
0.10-0.03900.01920.03-0.04-0.91
0.05-0.02950.01100.02-0.03-0.96
0.04-0.021000.00740.01-0.02-0.97

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 18 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot4062.57587.51052K0
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

spot32.5507087.51151503K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 7K call contracts, 5K 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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