Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 1:29 AM ET

TSLL max pain

Spot (delayed)$9.76
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$10+2.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.44±14.8% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.484K puts / 8K calls
Call wall$14largest call OI
Put wall$9largest put OI
IV3076.2%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$37Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $11

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$10+2.5%5d
Fri, Nov 6$9.5-2.6%12d
Fri, Nov 13$10+2.5%19d
Fri, Nov 20$10+2.5%26d
Fri, Nov 27$9.5-2.6%33d
Fri, Dec 4$10+2.5%40d
Fri, Dec 18$10+2.5%54d
Fri, Jan 15$9-7.8%82d
Fri, Mar 19$9-7.8%145d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot105810131518$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 — 10 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot1057.59.511.513.5161K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TSLL 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

spot1057.59.511.513.516402402
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot5810131518211%62%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 75.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 1157.59.511.513.516+$20K−$20K
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
0.96-0.006.50.03380.00-0.00-0.04
0.94-0.0170.05270.00-0.01-0.06
0.91-0.017.50.07910.00-0.01-0.09
0.85-0.0180.11260.01-0.01-0.14
0.78-0.018.50.14990.01-0.01-0.21
0.69-0.0290.18440.01-0.02-0.30
0.59-0.029.50.20840.01-0.02-0.41
0.48-0.02100.21640.01-0.02-0.51
0.38-0.0210.50.20790.01-0.02-0.61
0.29-0.01110.18710.01-0.01-0.70
0.22-0.0111.50.15990.01-0.01-0.78
0.16-0.01120.13150.01-0.01-0.84
0.12-0.0112.50.10520.01-0.01-0.88
0.09-0.01130.08250.00-0.01-0.91
0.06-0.0113.50.06400.00-0.01-0.94

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 23 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot4.57.51012.5151912K0
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

spot161014202883K83K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 544K call contracts, 183K 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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