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

WEN max pain

Spot (delayed)$6.33
Max pain · Fri, Oct 23$6.5+2.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.38±5.9% by Fri, Oct 23
Put/Call OI0.862K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$7largest call OI
Put wall$6largest put OI
IV3045.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$6Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $5.5

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 16$6.5+2.7%2d
Fri, Oct 23$6.5+2.7%9d
Fri, Oct 30$6.5+2.7%16d
Fri, Nov 6$6-5.2%23d
Fri, Nov 13$6-5.2%30d
Fri, Nov 20$8+26.4%37d
Fri, Nov 27$5.5-13.1%44d
Fri, Jan 15$8+26.4%93d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot6.524681012$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 — 6.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spot6.52467.5910.51K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)WEN open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 23.

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, Oct 23

spot6.52467.5910.56464
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spot5678910164%40%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 41.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 23

spotflip 5.5356.589.5+$26K−$26K
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, Oct 23

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.99-0.0020.00790.00-0.00-0.01
0.98-0.0130.01830.00-0.01-0.02
0.98-0.013.50.02790.00-0.01-0.02
0.97-0.0140.04370.00-0.01-0.03
0.93-0.0150.12600.00-0.01-0.07
0.88-0.015.50.24960.00-0.01-0.12
0.75-0.0160.58640.00-0.01-0.25
0.37-0.016.50.84700.00-0.01-0.63
0.16-0.0170.40000.00-0.01-0.84
0.09-0.017.50.21260.00-0.01-0.91
0.06-0.0180.13030.00-0.01-0.94
0.04-0.008.50.08750.00-0.00-0.96
0.03-0.0090.06250.00-0.00-0.97
0.03-0.009.50.04670.00-0.00-0.97
0.02-0.00100.03610.00-0.00-0.98

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 17 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1468106K0
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

spot14.57.510.5142268K68K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 279K call contracts, 56K 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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