Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 26, 8:30 PM ET

WING max pain

Spot (delayed)$122.88
Max pain · Thu, Jun 17$150+22.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$50.65±41.2% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI2.20396 puts / 180 calls
Call wall$150largest call OI
Put wall$150largest put OI
IV3078.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$19Kper 1% move

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, Nov 20$120-2.3%25d
Fri, Dec 18$130+5.8%53d
Fri, Jan 15$165+34.3%81d
Fri, Mar 19$155+26.1%144d
Thu, Jun 17$150+22.1%234d
Fri, Sep 17$105-14.6%326d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot1505596137178219260$3M$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 — 150 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot1505585115145175220196196
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)WING open contracts per strike for Thu, Jun 17.

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 · Thu, Jun 17

spot150558511514517522022
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot559613717821926088%60%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 65.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot5585115145175220+$18K−$18K
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 · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.81-0.03900.00400.27-0.04-0.19
0.78-0.03950.00440.29-0.04-0.22
0.75-0.041000.00470.31-0.04-0.25
0.72-0.041050.00510.33-0.04-0.28
0.70-0.041100.00540.34-0.05-0.31
0.67-0.041150.00560.35-0.05-0.34
0.64-0.041200.00580.37-0.05-0.37
0.61-0.051250.00600.38-0.05-0.40
0.58-0.051300.00620.38-0.05-0.43
0.55-0.051350.00620.39-0.05-0.46
0.52-0.051400.00630.39-0.05-0.49
0.49-0.051450.00640.39-0.05-0.52
0.46-0.051500.00640.39-0.05-0.55
0.44-0.051550.00630.38-0.04-0.58
0.41-0.051600.00630.38-0.04-0.60

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 35 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot551151652303304301K0
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

spot551151752703905101K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 18K call contracts, 15K 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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