Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 24, 6:29 AM ET

UBER max pain

Spot (delayed)$66.99
Max pain · Fri, Nov 6$70+4.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$5.47±8.2% by Fri, Nov 6
Put/Call OI2.5732K puts / 12K calls
Call wall$80largest call OI
Put wall$60largest put OI
IV3042.7%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$3.8Mper 1% move
Earnings · expectedTue, Nov 3usually before the open

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 30$70+4.5%6d
Fri, Nov 6$70+4.5%13d← 1st expiry after earnings (Tue, Nov 3)
Fri, Nov 13$69+3.0%20d
Fri, Nov 20$70+4.5%27d
Fri, Nov 27$70+4.5%34d
Fri, Dec 4$70+4.5%41d
Fri, Dec 18$75+12.0%55d
Fri, Jan 15$75+12.0%83d
Fri, Mar 19$70+4.5%146d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot705060708090100$39M$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 — 70 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot7050616773799019K19K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)UBER open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 6.

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 6

spot705061677379903K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot5060708090100155%47%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 52.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot506167737990+$2.7M−$2.7M
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 6

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.86-0.06600.03200.03-0.06-0.14
0.82-0.07610.03740.03-0.07-0.18
0.78-0.07620.04260.04-0.07-0.22
0.73-0.08630.04720.04-0.08-0.27
0.68-0.09640.05120.05-0.09-0.32
0.62-0.10650.05440.05-0.10-0.38
0.57-0.10660.05640.05-0.10-0.43
0.51-0.10670.05730.05-0.10-0.49
0.45-0.10680.05700.05-0.10-0.55
0.40-0.10690.05560.05-0.10-0.60
0.35-0.09700.05310.05-0.09-0.66
0.30-0.09710.04990.05-0.09-0.71
0.25-0.08720.04610.04-0.08-0.75
0.21-0.07730.04180.04-0.07-0.79
0.18-0.06740.03740.03-0.07-0.83

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 33 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot5061677379857K0
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

spot305665748311596K96K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 697K call contracts, 710K 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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