Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 27, 10:12 AM ET

URBN max pain

Spot (delayed)$90.6
Max pain · Fri, Jan 15$70-22.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$15.95±17.6% by Fri, Jan 15
Put/Call OI0.161K puts / 7K calls
Call wall$85largest call OI
Put wall$85largest put OI
IV3046.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$930Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $50

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Oct 28 · Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 30$86-5.1%3d
Fri, Nov 6$88-2.9%10d
Fri, Nov 13$85-6.2%17d
Fri, Nov 20$80-11.7%24d
Fri, Nov 27$79-12.8%31d
Fri, Dec 4$92+1.5%38d
Fri, Dec 18$80-11.7%52d
Fri, Jan 15$70-22.7%80d
Fri, Mar 19$90-0.7%143d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot7020416283104125$25M$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, Jan 15

spot7020334565901153K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)URBN open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 15.

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, Jan 15

spot702033456590115117117
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot20416283104125174%44%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 46.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spotflip 502033456590115+$497K−$497K
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, Jan 15

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.97-0.01550.00260.03-0.01-0.03
0.95-0.01600.00400.04-0.02-0.05
0.93-0.02650.00600.06-0.02-0.08
0.89-0.03700.00850.08-0.03-0.12
0.83-0.03750.01150.11-0.03-0.17
0.76-0.04800.01470.13-0.04-0.24
0.68-0.04850.01740.15-0.05-0.33
0.58-0.05900.01920.17-0.05-0.43
0.49-0.05950.01970.17-0.05-0.53
0.40-0.051000.01900.17-0.05-0.62
0.32-0.041050.01740.15-0.04-0.70
0.25-0.041100.01540.14-0.04-0.78
0.20-0.041150.01320.12-0.04-0.83
0.15-0.031200.01110.10-0.03-0.88
0.12-0.031250.00920.09-0.03-0.92

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

spot63698086921052090
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

spot20477081921033K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 10K call contracts, 3K 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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