Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Aug 15, 3:10 PM ET

UNFI max pain

Spot (delayed)$48.42
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$48-0.9% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$9.45±19.5% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI1.36491 puts / 361 calls
Call wall$60largest call OI
Put wall$44largest put OI
IV3053.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$6Kper 1% move

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Sep 4 · CPI release Fri, Sep 11 · FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 · Jobs report Fri, Oct 2 · CPI release Wed, Oct 14 · 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, Aug 21$45-7.1%5d
Fri, Sep 18$45-7.1%33d
Fri, Nov 20$48-0.9%96d
Fri, Jan 15$30-38.0%152d
Fri, Feb 19$42-13.3%187d
Fri, Jan 21$30-38.0%523d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot48253545556575$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 — 48 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

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■ calls (up)■ puts (down)UNFI 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

spot4825354045507511
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot25354555657583%44%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 47.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot253540455075+$7K$7K
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
0.79-0.02410.02320.07-0.02-0.21
0.77-0.02420.02520.08-0.02-0.23
0.74-0.02430.02700.08-0.02-0.26
0.71-0.02440.02870.09-0.02-0.29
0.68-0.02450.03020.09-0.02-0.33
0.65-0.02460.03150.09-0.02-0.36
0.61-0.02470.03260.10-0.02-0.39
0.58-0.02480.03340.10-0.02-0.43
0.55-0.02490.03400.10-0.02-0.46
0.51-0.02500.03430.10-0.02-0.50
0.35-0.02550.03230.09-0.02-0.66
0.23-0.02600.02640.08-0.02-0.79
0.14-0.01650.01950.06-0.01-0.89
0.09-0.01700.01340.04-0.01-0.95
0.05-0.01750.00890.03-0.00-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 26 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot2635394448601K0
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

spot1527333945556K6K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 8K call contracts, 8K 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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