What is BX max pain this week?

BX max pain for the nearest expiration (2026-10-09) is $119.00. Total call open interest: 7,269. Total put open interest: 4,277.

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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BX

Blackstone Inc.Close $111.75EOD only

Max Pain

$119.00

Next expiry Oct 9, 2026

Expected Move

±$2.27

2.0% from close

Price Gap

+7.25

Distance to max pain

IV Rank

Middle-high premium

P/C OI

1.64

Slightly put-heavy

Consensus

4/4

Partial coverage

Published snapshot: Oct 2, 2026 close

End-of-day snapshot

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Published Snapshot

Oct 2, 2026 close

Max Pain — BX

Data as of market close Oct 2, 2026

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Nearest listed expiration 2026-10-09 shows max pain at $119.00 (7.25 above spot). Use this page to evaluate pin-risk zones, strike pressure, and open-interest concentration before selecting trade structure.

Max Pain Strike

$119.00

Nearest expiry

Expected Move

±$2.27

±2.0%

Days to Expiry

Calendar days

Total Call OI

7,269

Nearest expiry

Total Put OI

4,277

Nearest expiry

P/C OI Ratio

0.59

Put-heavy

Spot Price

$111.75

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	$125.00	9/25/2026, 11:03:28 PM
2026-10-02Updated	$120.00	10/2/2026, 11:04:11 PM
2026-10-09Next	$119.00	10/2/2026, 11:04:11 PM
2026-10-16	$130.00	10/2/2026, 11:04:11 PM
2026-10-23	$121.00	10/2/2026, 11:04:11 PM
2026-10-30	$115.00	10/2/2026, 11:04:11 PM
2026-11-06	$116.00	10/2/2026, 11:04:11 PM
2026-11-20	$155.00	10/2/2026, 11:04:11 PM
2026-12-18	$140.00	10/2/2026, 11:04:11 PM
2027-01-15	$135.00	10/2/2026, 11:04:11 PM
2027-02-19	$130.00	10/2/2026, 11:04:11 PM
2027-03-19	$120.00	10/2/2026, 11:04:11 PM
2027-06-17	$110.00	10/2/2026, 11:04:11 PM
2027-09-17	$130.00	10/2/2026, 11:04:11 PM

Selected expiration: 2026-10-09 at max pain $119.00.

BX pain by strike for 2026-10-09 expiration
Strike	Call Pain	Put Pain	Total Pain
80	0	13073300	13073300
85	0	10944800	10944800
90	0	8821800	8821800
95	26500	6712300	6738800
99	73700	5093100	5166800
100	85500	4691200	4776700
101	97800	4296100	4393900
102	110200	3901200	4011400
103	122700	3507000	3629700
104	135200	3115200	3250400
105	147800	2724700	2872500
106	160400	2352300	2512700
107	175000	2011100	2186100
108	189600	1685500	1875100
109	204200	1389100	1593300
110	218800	1110800	1329600
111	253100	911100	1164200
112	296600	725100	1021700
113	349600	610700	960300
114	425700	504200	929900

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.