Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 28, 8:26 PM ET

TWLO max pain

Spot (delayed)$253.77
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$240-5.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$43.1±17.0% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.584K puts / 6K calls
Call wall$300largest call OI
Put wall$250largest put OI
IV3077.5%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$835Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $200

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$260+2.5%1d
Fri, Nov 6$270+6.4%8d
Fri, Nov 13$260+2.5%15d
Fri, Nov 20$240-5.4%22d
Fri, Nov 27$255+0.5%29d
Fri, Dec 4$255+0.5%36d
Fri, Dec 18$190-25.1%50d
Fri, Jan 15$145-42.9%78d
Fri, Feb 19$230-9.4%113d
Fri, Mar 19$220-13.3%141d
Fri, Apr 16$250-1.5%169d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot240100164228292356420$92M$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 — 240 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot240100170220250290370722722
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TWLO 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

spot240100170220250290370243243
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot100164228292356420177%70%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 84.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 200100170220250290370+$250K−$250K
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
0.72-0.402300.00620.22-0.40-0.28
0.70-0.41232.50.00640.22-0.41-0.30
0.68-0.422350.00650.23-0.42-0.32
0.65-0.442400.00680.24-0.44-0.35
0.63-0.45242.50.00690.24-0.45-0.37
0.61-0.452450.00700.24-0.46-0.39
0.57-0.462500.00720.25-0.47-0.43
0.54-0.472550.00730.25-0.47-0.46
0.50-0.472600.00730.25-0.47-0.50
0.47-0.472650.00730.25-0.47-0.54
0.45-0.47267.50.00730.25-0.47-0.55
0.43-0.462700.00720.25-0.46-0.57
0.40-0.452750.00710.25-0.45-0.60
0.37-0.442800.00700.24-0.44-0.64
0.31-0.412900.00650.22-0.41-0.70

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 45 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot165237.5265290312.53452K0
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

spot45110165227.52753604K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 46K call contracts, 34K 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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