Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 25, 3:27 AM ET

WLDN max pain

Spot (delayed)$72.48
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$75+3.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$12.2±16.8% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI1.031K puts / 1K calls
Call wall$140largest call OI
Put wall$70largest put OI
IV3059.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$127Kper 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, Nov 20$75+3.5%26d
Fri, Dec 18$65-10.3%54d
Fri, Feb 19$70-3.4%117d
Fri, May 21$75+3.5%208d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot7535567798119140$4M$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 — 75 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot7535557595115135924924
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)WLDN 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

spot75355575951151355858
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot35567798119140195%66%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 76.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot35557595115135+$148K−$148K
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
0.99-0.01350.00090.00-0.01-0.01
0.99-0.01400.00160.01-0.01-0.01
0.98-0.02450.00290.01-0.02-0.02
0.96-0.03500.00530.02-0.03-0.04
0.92-0.04550.00950.03-0.04-0.07
0.86-0.05600.01600.04-0.05-0.14
0.76-0.07650.02430.06-0.07-0.24
0.61-0.08700.03130.08-0.08-0.39
0.45-0.09750.03300.08-0.09-0.55
0.31-0.07800.02900.07-0.08-0.69
0.20-0.06850.02260.06-0.06-0.80
0.13-0.05900.01630.04-0.05-0.88
0.08-0.03950.01140.03-0.04-0.92
0.05-0.031000.00790.02-0.03-0.95
0.04-0.021050.00550.02-0.02-0.97

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 22 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot4070901101304490
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

spot355575951151351K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1K 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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