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

TTD max pain

Spot (delayed)$12.96
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$13+0.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.34±18.1% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.472K puts / 4K calls
Call wall$15largest call OI
Put wall$12.5largest put OI
IV3082.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$49Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $14

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$12.5-3.5%4d
Fri, Nov 6$12.5-3.5%11d
Fri, Nov 13$13+0.3%18d
Fri, Nov 20$15+15.7%25d
Fri, Nov 27$13.5+4.2%32d
Fri, Dec 4$12.5-3.5%39d
Fri, Dec 18$17.5+35.0%53d
Fri, Jan 15$17.5+35.0%81d
Fri, Mar 19$17.5+35.0%144d
Fri, Apr 16$12.5-3.5%172d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot134812162024$4M$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 — 13 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot1348.511.514.517.5231K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TTD 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

spot1348.511.514.517.5236565
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot61013172024355%83%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 94.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 145912151824+$21K−$21K
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
0.93-0.019.50.04460.00-0.01-0.07
0.90-0.01100.05960.01-0.01-0.10
0.85-0.0210.50.07590.01-0.02-0.15
0.80-0.02110.09220.01-0.02-0.20
0.75-0.0211.50.10720.01-0.02-0.25
0.69-0.03120.11990.01-0.03-0.32
0.62-0.0312.50.12940.01-0.03-0.38
0.55-0.03130.13510.01-0.03-0.45
0.48-0.0313.50.13660.01-0.03-0.52
0.42-0.03140.13420.01-0.03-0.58
0.36-0.0314.50.12860.01-0.03-0.64
0.31-0.02150.12040.01-0.02-0.70
0.26-0.0215.50.11060.01-0.02-0.75
0.21-0.02160.09980.01-0.02-0.79
0.17-0.0216.50.08850.01-0.02-0.83

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 32 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot49.512.515.518.52315K0
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

spot513.527.547.57012065K65K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 642K call contracts, 213K 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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