Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 19, 8:19 PM ET

ZBH max pain

Spot (delayed)$94.99
Max pain · Thu, Jun 17$80-15.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$20.45±21.5% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI0.77196 puts / 253 calls
Call wall$95largest call OI
Put wall$65largest put OI
IV3036.0%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$18Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $55

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$90-5.3%32d
Fri, Dec 18$90-5.3%60d
Fri, Jan 15$95+0.0%88d
Fri, Mar 19$80-15.8%151d
Thu, Jun 17$80-15.8%241d
Fri, Sep 17$50-47.4%333d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot8050668298114130$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 — 80 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot80506580951101307979
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ZBH 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

spot805065809511013011
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot5066829811413060%29%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 33.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spotflip 5550658095110130+$8K−$8K
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
0.93-0.00600.00370.10-0.01-0.07
0.91-0.01650.00500.13-0.01-0.09
0.88-0.01700.00650.16-0.01-0.12
0.84-0.01750.00830.19-0.01-0.16
0.79-0.01800.01020.22-0.02-0.21
0.73-0.01850.01220.25-0.02-0.28
0.66-0.02900.01400.28-0.02-0.35
0.59-0.02950.01540.30-0.02-0.43
0.51-0.021000.01630.30-0.02-0.51
0.43-0.021050.01640.30-0.02-0.59
0.36-0.021100.01570.29-0.02-0.68
0.29-0.021150.01460.26-0.01-0.75
0.24-0.011200.01310.24-0.01-0.82
0.15-0.011300.00990.18-0.01-0.93

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 16 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot4570951201452K0
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

spot4570951201453K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 5K call contracts, 6K 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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