Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 14, 2:41 AM ET

WEC max pain

Spot (delayed)$105.87
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$105-0.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$5.15±4.9% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI1.581K puts / 815 calls
Call wall$110largest call OI
Put wall$100largest put OI
IV3019.4%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$321Kper 1% move

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 16$105-0.8%2d
Fri, Nov 20$105-0.8%37d
Fri, Jan 15$105-0.8%93d
Fri, Apr 16$100-5.5%184d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1055578101124147170$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 — 105 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot105558097.51151351701K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)WEC 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

spot105558097.51151351702323
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot758810111412714066%17%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 17.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot558097.5115135170+$447K−$447K
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
0.98-0.01750.00270.02-0.02-0.03
0.97-0.01800.00380.02-0.02-0.04
0.96-0.01850.00580.03-0.02-0.05
0.95-0.01900.00930.03-0.02-0.07
0.92-0.02950.01710.04-0.02-0.10
0.90-0.0297.50.02480.06-0.02-0.14
0.84-0.021000.03750.08-0.03-0.21
0.59-0.031050.06730.13-0.03-0.47
0.26-0.031100.05760.11-0.02-0.78
0.09-0.011150.02620.06-0.01-0.92
0.06-0.011200.01420.04-0.01-0.94
0.04-0.011250.00920.03-0.01-0.96
0.04-0.011300.00660.03-0.01-0.97
0.03-0.011350.00500.02-0.01-0.97
0.02-0.011400.00390.02-0.01-0.97

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 21 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot80951051201351602K0
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

spot558097.51201451702K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 5K call contracts, 2K 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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