Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 12:32 AM ET

TSEM max pain

Spot (delayed)$167.2
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$180+7.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$31.7±19.0% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.75147 puts / 197 calls
Call wall$240largest call OI
Put wall$145largest put OI
IV3089.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$17Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $145

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$210+25.6%5d
Fri, Nov 6$190+13.6%12d
Fri, Nov 13$180+7.7%19d
Fri, Nov 20$240+43.5%26d
Fri, Nov 27$210+25.6%33d
Fri, Dec 4$190+13.6%40d
Fri, Dec 18$180+7.7%54d
Fri, Jan 15$150-10.3%82d
Fri, Apr 16$200+19.6%173d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot180130174218262306350$2M$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 — 180 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot1801301652002352703053030
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TSEM open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 13.

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 13

spot1801301652002352703051414
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot130174218262306350189%86%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 99.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 145130165200235270305+$7K−$7K
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 13

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.87-0.211300.00490.08-0.21-0.13
0.84-0.241350.00580.10-0.24-0.16
0.81-0.271400.00670.11-0.27-0.19
0.77-0.291450.00760.12-0.29-0.23
0.72-0.321500.00840.14-0.32-0.28
0.68-0.341550.00920.14-0.34-0.32
0.63-0.351600.00970.15-0.35-0.37
0.58-0.361650.01020.16-0.36-0.42
0.53-0.361700.01040.16-0.37-0.48
0.47-0.361750.01040.16-0.36-0.53
0.42-0.351800.01030.16-0.36-0.58
0.38-0.341850.01000.15-0.34-0.63
0.33-0.331900.00960.15-0.33-0.67
0.29-0.311950.00910.14-0.31-0.71
0.26-0.292000.00850.13-0.29-0.75

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 42 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot130177.5200227.52553007K0
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

spot201051501902453309K9K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 43K call contracts, 47K 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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