Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 27, 5:52 AM ET

TYRA max pain

Spot (delayed)$20.4
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$20-2.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$4.45±21.8% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.4479 puts / 181 calls
Call wall$30largest call OI
Put wall$15largest put OI
IV3069.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$2Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $22.5

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, Nov 20$20-2.0%24d
Fri, Dec 18$20-2.0%52d
Fri, Feb 19$25+22.5%115d
Fri, May 21$27.5+34.8%206d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot20101928374655$1M$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 — 20 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot201017.52532.542.5555050
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TYRA 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

spot201017.52532.542.55533
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot101928374655440%68%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 121.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 22.51017.52532.542.555+$1K−$1K
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
0.98-0.00100.00520.00-0.01-0.01
0.97-0.0112.50.01210.00-0.01-0.03
0.93-0.01150.02920.01-0.01-0.07
0.82-0.0217.50.06710.01-0.02-0.18
0.58-0.03200.10620.02-0.03-0.41
0.34-0.0322.50.09480.02-0.03-0.66
0.20-0.02250.06490.01-0.02-0.81
0.12-0.0227.50.04230.01-0.02-0.89
0.07-0.01300.02790.01-0.01-0.93
0.05-0.0132.50.01890.01-0.01-0.96
0.03-0.01350.01310.00-0.01-0.97
0.02-0.01400.00680.00-0.00-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 12 strikes around the money — all 16 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1522.5304050360
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

spot2.512.522.532.542.55151
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 220 call contracts, 129 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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