What is DELL max pain this week?

DELL max pain for the nearest expiration (2026-10-09) is $537.50. Total call open interest: 13,988. Total put open interest: 15,193.

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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DELL

Dell Technologies Inc.Close $562.52EOD only

Max Pain

$537.50

Next expiry Oct 9, 2026

Expected Move

±$32.55

5.8% from close

Price Gap

-25.02

Distance to max pain

IV Rank

Low premium

P/C OI

1.40

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 — DELL

Data as of market close Oct 2, 2026

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Nearest listed expiration 2026-10-09 shows max pain at $537.50 (25.02 below spot). Use this page to evaluate pin-risk zones, strike pressure, and open-interest concentration before selecting trade structure.

Max Pain Strike

$537.50

Nearest expiry

Expected Move

±$32.55

±5.8%

Days to Expiry

Calendar days

Total Call OI

13,988

Nearest expiry

Total Put OI

15,193

Nearest expiry

P/C OI Ratio

1.09

Put-heavy

Spot Price

$562.52

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	$547.50	9/25/2026, 11:10:13 PM
2026-10-02Updated	$542.50	10/2/2026, 11:10:29 PM
2026-10-09Next	$537.50	10/2/2026, 11:10:29 PM
2026-10-16	$510.00	10/2/2026, 11:10:29 PM
2026-10-23	$530.00	10/2/2026, 11:10:29 PM
2026-10-30	$540.00	10/2/2026, 11:10:29 PM
2026-11-06	$525.00	10/2/2026, 11:10:29 PM
2026-11-20	$490.00	10/2/2026, 11:10:29 PM
2026-12-18	$350.00	10/2/2026, 11:10:29 PM
2027-01-15	$250.00	10/2/2026, 11:10:29 PM
2027-02-19	$570.00	10/2/2026, 11:10:29 PM
2027-03-19	$330.00	10/2/2026, 11:10:29 PM
2027-04-16	$500.00	10/2/2026, 11:10:29 PM
2027-06-17	$390.00	10/2/2026, 11:10:29 PM
2027-09-17	$390.00	10/2/2026, 11:10:29 PM

Selected expiration: 2026-10-09 at max pain $537.50.

DELL pain by strike for 2026-10-09 expiration
Strike	Call Pain	Put Pain	Total Pain
245	0	251520250	251520250
250	0	244672250	244672250
255	500	238245250	238245750
260	2000	231934250	231936250
265	3500	225735250	225738750
270	6500	219685250	219691750
275	10500	213651250	213661750
280	14500	207910250	207924750
285	19500	202213750	202233250
290	24500	196594250	196618750
295	30500	191058250	191088750
300	36500	185542250	185578750
305	42500	180132250	180174750
310	49500	174735250	174784750
315	58500	169349750	169408250
320	68000	164010750	164078750
325	77500	158728250	158805750
330	88000	153460250	153548250
335	98500	148209750	148308250
340	109500	142977250	143086750

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.