What is BA max pain this week?

BA max pain for the nearest expiration (2026-10-09) is $192.50. Total call open interest: 18,058. Total put open interest: 9,996.

What is max pain in options?

Max pain is the strike price where option holders (buyers of both puts and calls) would collectively lose the most money at expiration. It represents the point of maximum financial pain for option buyers, and theory suggests stock prices tend to gravitate toward max pain as expiration approaches.

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Boeing Company (The)Close $193.56EOD only

Max Pain

$192.50

Next expiry Oct 9, 2026

Expected Move

±$7.06

3.6% from close

Price Gap

-1.06

Distance to max pain

IV Rank

Low premium

P/C OI

0.80

Slightly call-heavy

Consensus

4/4

Partial coverage

Published snapshot: Oct 2, 2026 close

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Published Snapshot

Oct 2, 2026 close

Max Pain — BA

Data as of market close Oct 2, 2026

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Nearest listed expiration 2026-10-09 shows max pain at $192.50 (1.06 below spot). Use this page to evaluate pin-risk zones, strike pressure, and open-interest concentration before selecting trade structure.

Max Pain Strike

$192.50

Nearest expiry

Expected Move

±$7.06

±3.6%

Days to Expiry

Calendar days

Total Call OI

18,058

Nearest expiry

Total Put OI

9,996

Nearest expiry

P/C OI Ratio

0.55

Put-heavy

Spot Price

$193.56

Published close

Consensus

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Max Pain by Expiration

Pain by Strike

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Selected: 2026-10-09

Expiration	Max Pain Strike	Last Updated
2026-09-25	$200.00	9/25/2026, 11:05:47 PM
2026-10-02Updated	$190.00	10/2/2026, 11:05:33 PM
2026-10-09Next	$192.50	10/2/2026, 11:05:33 PM
2026-10-16	$200.00	10/2/2026, 11:05:33 PM
2026-10-23	$200.00	10/2/2026, 11:05:33 PM
2026-10-30	$195.00	10/2/2026, 11:05:33 PM
2026-11-06	$190.00	10/2/2026, 11:05:33 PM
2026-11-20	$210.00	10/2/2026, 11:05:33 PM
2026-12-18	$205.00	10/2/2026, 11:05:33 PM
2027-01-15	$205.00	10/2/2026, 11:05:33 PM
2027-02-19	$205.00	10/2/2026, 11:05:33 PM
2027-03-19	$210.00	10/2/2026, 11:05:33 PM
2027-05-21	$190.00	10/2/2026, 11:05:33 PM
2027-06-17	$200.00	10/2/2026, 11:05:33 PM
2027-09-17	$200.00	10/2/2026, 11:05:33 PM

Selected expiration: 2026-10-09 at max pain $192.50.

BA pain by strike for 2026-10-09 expiration
Strike	Call Pain	Put Pain	Total Pain
130	0	55954000	55954000
160	0	26038000	26038000
165	6000	21069500	21075500
170	18500	16444500	16463000
172.5	24750	14286000	14310750
175	31000	12181500	12212500
177.5	48000	10210500	10258500
180	65000	8378500	8443500
182.5	106250	6730750	6837000
185	169750	5225000	5394750
187.5	355750	4025500	4381250
190	615750	2981000	3596750
192.5	1441750	2148500	3590250
195	2442250	1433750	3876000
197.5	4117500	923500	5041000
200	6152250	459000	6611250
202.5	8784000	276250	9060250
205	11610250	126500	11736750
207.5	14660000	65000	14725000
210	17862500	19750	17882250

How to Read Max Pain

Compare pin-risk and strike-pressure across expirations from the latest published close.

What max pain measures

Max pain is the strike where option holders would collectively lose the most at expiration, based on open interest across the listed chain.

How traders use it

It is most useful as a possible pinning zone, especially when spot is already trading near a crowded strike into expiration.

What can break it

Strong directional flows, news, or fast spot moves can overwhelm any pinning tendency, so max pain should support a thesis rather than drive it alone.

The closer you are to expiration, the more useful this becomes as context and the less useful it is as a standalone prediction.