Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 27, 4:12 PM ET

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Spot (delayed)$41.13
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$44+7.0% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$6.08±14.8% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.882K puts / 3K calls
Call wall$41largest call OI
Put wall$44largest put OI
IV3071.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$20Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $30

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$41-0.3%3d
Fri, Nov 6$44+7.0%10d
Fri, Nov 13$44+7.0%17d
Fri, Nov 20$38-7.6%24d
Fri, Nov 27$40-2.7%31d
Fri, Dec 4$40-2.7%38d
Fri, Dec 18$41-0.3%52d
Fri, Jan 15$30-27.1%80d
Fri, Feb 19$39-5.2%115d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot44253239465360$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 — 44 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot442534394449542K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)U 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

spot442534394449544545
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot303642485460131%81%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 85.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 30253439444954+$85K−$85K
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
0.86-0.05340.02780.02-0.05-0.14
0.82-0.06350.03240.02-0.06-0.17
0.79-0.07360.03700.03-0.07-0.21
0.74-0.07370.04130.03-0.07-0.26
0.70-0.08380.04510.03-0.08-0.30
0.65-0.08390.04820.03-0.08-0.35
0.60-0.09400.05050.04-0.09-0.40
0.55-0.09410.05180.04-0.09-0.45
0.49-0.09420.05220.04-0.09-0.51
0.44-0.09430.05170.04-0.09-0.56
0.40-0.09440.05040.03-0.09-0.60
0.35-0.08450.04840.03-0.08-0.65
0.31-0.08460.04580.03-0.08-0.69
0.27-0.07470.04290.03-0.07-0.73
0.24-0.07480.03980.03-0.07-0.77

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 28 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot2533.53842465133K0
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

spot3213137.5445144K44K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 383K call contracts, 257K 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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