Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 28, 9:34 PM ET

TSM max pain

Spot (delayed)$431.28
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$435+0.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$26.58±6.2% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI1.0612K puts / 11K calls
Call wall$475largest call OI
Put wall$420largest put OI
IV3033.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$4.3Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $440

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, Oct 30$425-1.5%2d
Fri, Nov 6$440+2.0%9d
Fri, Nov 13$435+0.9%16d
Fri, Nov 20$420-2.6%23d
Fri, Nov 27$450+4.3%30d
Fri, Dec 4$440+2.0%37d
Fri, Dec 18$420-2.6%51d
Fri, Jan 15$380-11.9%79d
Fri, Feb 19$420-2.6%114d
Fri, Mar 19$420-2.6%142d
Fri, Apr 16$430-0.3%170d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot435230306382458534610$189M$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 — 435 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot4352302903654104504902K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TSM 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

spot435230290365410450490577577
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot230306382458534610132%29%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 35.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 440255315380425465505+$2.4M−$2.4M
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 13

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.89-0.204000.00520.18-0.21-0.11
0.86-0.234050.00620.20-0.24-0.14
0.83-0.274100.00730.23-0.27-0.17
0.79-0.304150.00840.27-0.30-0.21
0.75-0.334200.00960.29-0.33-0.25
0.70-0.354250.01060.32-0.36-0.30
0.64-0.384300.01150.34-0.38-0.36
0.61-0.39432.50.01190.35-0.39-0.39
0.58-0.394350.01220.36-0.40-0.42
0.55-0.40437.50.01240.36-0.40-0.45
0.52-0.404400.01260.37-0.40-0.48
0.46-0.394450.01260.37-0.40-0.54
0.40-0.384500.01240.36-0.38-0.61
0.34-0.354550.01180.34-0.36-0.67
0.28-0.324600.01100.31-0.33-0.72

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 59 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot230315382.5420452.549515K0
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

spot7020032041548060079K79K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 928K call contracts, 952K 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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