What is QCOM max pain this week?

QCOM max pain for the nearest expiration (2026-10-09) is $185.00. Total call open interest: 12,241. Total put open interest: 6,793.

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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QCOM

QUALCOMM IncorporatedClose $184.87EOD only

Max Pain

$185.00

Next expiry Oct 9, 2026

Expected Move

±$8.25

4.5% from close

Price Gap

+0.13

Distance to max pain

IV Rank

Low premium

P/C OI

0.93

Balanced positioning

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 — QCOM

Data as of market close Oct 2, 2026

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Nearest listed expiration 2026-10-09 shows max pain at $185.00 (0.13 above spot). Use this page to evaluate pin-risk zones, strike pressure, and open-interest concentration before selecting trade structure.

Max Pain Strike

$185.00

Nearest expiry

Expected Move

±$8.25

±4.5%

Days to Expiry

Calendar days

Total Call OI

12,241

Nearest expiry

Total Put OI

6,793

Nearest expiry

P/C OI Ratio

0.55

Put-heavy

Spot Price

$184.87

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	$185.00	9/25/2026, 11:24:48 PM
2026-10-02Updated	$185.00	10/2/2026, 11:27:41 PM
2026-10-09Next	$185.00	10/2/2026, 11:27:41 PM
2026-10-16	$177.50	10/2/2026, 11:27:41 PM
2026-10-23	$185.00	10/2/2026, 11:27:41 PM
2026-10-30	$185.00	10/2/2026, 11:27:41 PM
2026-11-06	$190.00	10/2/2026, 11:27:41 PM
2026-11-20	$180.00	10/2/2026, 11:27:41 PM
2026-12-18	$185.00	10/2/2026, 11:27:41 PM
2027-01-15	$195.00	10/2/2026, 11:27:41 PM
2027-02-19	$170.00	10/2/2026, 11:27:41 PM
2027-03-19	$180.00	10/2/2026, 11:27:41 PM
2027-04-16	$180.00	10/2/2026, 11:27:41 PM
2027-06-17	$185.00	10/2/2026, 11:27:41 PM
2027-09-17	$195.00	10/2/2026, 11:27:41 PM

Selected expiration: 2026-10-09 at max pain $185.00.

QCOM pain by strike for 2026-10-09 expiration
Strike	Call Pain	Put Pain	Total Pain
90	0	55170500	55170500
110	2000	41622500	41624500
115	2500	38243000	38245500
120	3000	34870000	34873000
125	3500	31499500	31503000
130	4000	28131500	28135500
135	4500	24823500	24828000
140	5000	21546500	21551500
145	10500	18394500	18405000
150	17000	15407500	15424500
155	26000	12504500	12530500
157.5	31000	11087000	11118000
160	36500	9673000	9709500
162.5	60500	8318000	8378500
165	85250	7007000	7092250
167.5	153000	5767250	5920250
170	221500	4628500	4850000
172.5	323750	3650250	3974000
175	427000	2744500	3171500
177.5	580500	2056250	2636750

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.