Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 1:55 PM ET

WDC max pain

Spot (delayed)$347.35
Max pain · Fri, Nov 6$370+6.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$36.03±10.4% by Fri, Nov 6
Put/Call OI1.6912K puts / 7K calls
Call wall$330largest call OI
Put wall$320largest put OI
IV3067.1%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$5.6Mper 1% move

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$370+6.5%4d
Fri, Nov 6$370+6.5%11d
Fri, Nov 13$400+15.2%18d
Fri, Nov 20$390+12.3%25d
Fri, Nov 27$380+9.4%32d
Fri, Dec 4$395+13.7%39d
Fri, Dec 18$360+3.6%53d
Fri, Jan 15$380+9.4%81d
Fri, Mar 19$450+29.6%144d
Fri, Apr 16$340-2.1%172d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot370210292374456538620$154M$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 — 370 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot370210317.53554004455004K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)WDC 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

spot370210317.53554004455007474
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot210292374456538620154%57%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 73.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 6

spot210317.5355400445500+$3.3M−$3.3M
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
0.77-0.63317.50.00640.18-0.64-0.23
0.75-0.663200.00670.19-0.66-0.25
0.74-0.68322.50.00700.20-0.69-0.27
0.68-0.743300.00770.22-0.75-0.32
0.64-0.783350.00810.23-0.78-0.36
0.60-0.803400.00840.24-0.81-0.41
0.55-0.823450.00860.24-0.82-0.45
0.53-0.82347.50.00870.24-0.82-0.47
0.51-0.823500.00870.24-0.82-0.49
0.49-0.82352.50.00870.24-0.82-0.51
0.47-0.813550.00870.24-0.82-0.54
0.42-0.803600.00860.24-0.80-0.58
0.38-0.783650.00840.23-0.78-0.62
0.34-0.753700.00810.23-0.75-0.66
0.31-0.713750.00770.21-0.71-0.70

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 56 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot250327.53704104705402K0
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

spot1512026039053068020K20K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 236K call contracts, 293K 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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