Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 27, 2:25 AM ET

UAL max pain

Spot (delayed)$100.79
Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$100-0.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$8.98±8.9% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.792K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$95largest call OI
Put wall$102largest put OI
IV3047.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$39Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $121

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$102+1.2%3d
Fri, Nov 6$101+0.2%10d
Fri, Nov 13$100-0.8%17d
Fri, Nov 20$105+4.2%24d
Fri, Nov 27$99-1.8%31d
Fri, Dec 4$100-0.8%38d
Fri, Dec 18$95-5.7%52d
Fri, Jan 15$100-0.8%80d
Fri, Mar 19$110+9.1%143d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot100708396109122135$6M$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 — 100 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot100709098106114122402402
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)UAL 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

spot100709098106114122113113
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot708396109122135126%40%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 50.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 121709098106114122+$144K−$144K
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
0.75-0.10940.02740.07-0.10-0.25
0.72-0.11950.02910.08-0.11-0.28
0.69-0.11960.03060.08-0.11-0.31
0.66-0.12970.03200.08-0.12-0.35
0.62-0.12980.03320.09-0.12-0.38
0.59-0.12990.03420.09-0.12-0.41
0.55-0.121000.03490.09-0.13-0.45
0.52-0.131010.03530.09-0.13-0.48
0.48-0.121020.03550.09-0.13-0.52
0.45-0.121030.03540.09-0.12-0.56
0.41-0.121040.03500.09-0.12-0.59
0.38-0.121050.03430.09-0.12-0.62
0.35-0.111060.03340.08-0.11-0.66
0.32-0.111070.03230.08-0.11-0.69
0.29-0.101080.03090.08-0.10-0.72

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 46 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot70941021101181262K0
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

spot2050759511015560K60K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 244K call contracts, 171K 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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