NATIONALUM
National Aluminium Co Ltd
Max pain for NATIONALUM
06 Sep 2024 04:10 PM IST
Max Pain for NATIONALUM is 175
Strike 150 has a total call value of 0 versus a total put value of 38,866,875,000 Combined total value = 38,866,875,000
Strike 155 has a total call value of 0 versus a total put value of 31,104,375,000 Combined total value = 31,104,375,000
Strike 160 has a total call value of 20,625,000 versus a total put value of 23,583,750,000 Combined total value = 23,604,375,000
Strike 165 has a total call value of 744,375,000 versus a total put value of 16,875,000,000 Combined total value = 17,619,375,000
Strike 170 has a total call value of 1,687,500,000 versus a total put value of 11,171,250,000 Combined total value = 12,858,750,000
Strike 175 has a total call value of 3,408,750,000 versus a total put value of 6,851,250,000 Combined total value = 10,260,000,000
Strike 180 has a total call value of 6,753,750,000 versus a total put value of 3,562,500,000 Combined total value = 10,316,250,000
Strike 185 has a total call value of 13,177,500,000 versus a total put value of 1,711,875,000 Combined total value = 14,889,375,000
Strike 190 has a total call value of 22,295,625,000 versus a total put value of 886,875,000 Combined total value = 23,182,500,000
Strike 195 has a total call value of 33,504,375,000 versus a total put value of 393,750,000 Combined total value = 33,898,125,000
Strike 200 has a total call value of 45,247,500,000 versus a total put value of 0 Combined total value = 45,247,500,000
Strike 205 has a total call value of 59,390,625,000 versus a total put value of 0 Combined total value = 59,390,625,000
Strike 210 has a total call value of 73,901,250,000 versus a total put value of 0 Combined total value = 73,901,250,000
Strike 215 has a total call value of 88,905,000,000 versus a total put value of 0 Combined total value = 88,905,000,000
Strike 220 has a total call value of 103,908,750,000 versus a total put value of 0 Combined total value = 103,908,750,000
What is Max Pain?
Max pain, or the max pain price, is the strike price with the most open contract puts and calls - and the price at which the stock would cause financial losses for the largest number of option holders at expiration.
Calculating Max Pain
Max pain is a simple but time consuming calculation. Essentially, it is the sum of the outstanding put and call dollar value of each in-the-money strike price. For each in-the-money strike price for both puts and calls:
- Find the difference between stock price and strike price
- Multiply the result by open interest at that strike
- Add together the dollar value for the put and call at that strike
- Repeat for each strike price
- Find the highest value strike price. This price is equivalent to max pain price.
How can a trader benefit?
As the option expiration approaches, option writers will try to buy or sell shares of stock to drive the price toward a closing price that is profitable for them, or at least to hedge their payouts to option holders. Call writers sell shares to drive share price down and Put holders buy shares to drive share price up. The max pain strike price exists somewhere in the middle.