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Options max pain todayOctober 26, 2026 ET

Max pain is the strike where open calls and puts for an expiration would pay out the least in total. Each page recomputes it from live open interest about once an hour for the nearest four expirations and shows the pain curve by strike. Descriptive, not predictive.

TickerNearest expirationMax painSpot
SPY max pain2026-10-26$763$765.25
QQQ max pain2026-10-26$712$712.65
IWM max pain2026-10-26$275$276.7
NVDA max pain2026-10-26$212.5$216.3
TSLA max pain2026-10-26$372.5$392.2
AAPL max pain2026-10-26$347.5$343.8
AMD max pain2026-10-26$520$532.5
MSFT max pain2026-10-26$525$532.29
META max pain2026-10-26$650$633.06
AMZN max pain2026-10-26$250$249.09
GOOGL max pain2026-10-26$322.5$317.59
GME max pain2026-10-30$24$23.46
AMC max pain2026-10-30$3$2.89
MSTR max pain2026-10-30$150$140.3
MU max pain2026-10-26$890$906.53
PLTR max pain2026-10-30$192.5$198.72
SMCI max pain2026-10-30$34.5$32.86
MARA max pain2026-10-30$7.5$6.88
COIN max pain2026-10-30$170$159.73
IREN max pain2026-10-30$27.5$25.79
ASTS max pain2026-10-30$43.5$39.52

Every ticker

Max pain pages for 161 stocks and ETFs; the ones above are refreshed on this index, the rest compute when opened.

Read max pain next to the call wall, put wall and gamma flip on the GEX map. Not advice.