What is WFC max pain this week?

WFC max pain for the nearest expiration (2026-07-10) is $83.00. Total call open interest: 14,270. Total put open interest: 6,594.

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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Wells Fargo & CompanyClose $85.51EOD only

Max Pain

$83.00

Next expiry Jul 10, 2026

Expected Move

±$2.37

2.8% from close

Price Gap

-2.51

Distance to max pain

IV Rank

Low premium

P/C OI

1.24

Slightly put-heavy

Consensus

4/4

Partial coverage

Published snapshot: Jul 2, 2026 close

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Published Snapshot

Jul 2, 2026 close

Max Pain — WFC

Data as of market close Jul 2, 2026

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Nearest listed expiration 2026-07-10 shows max pain at $83.00 (2.51 below spot). Use this page to evaluate pin-risk zones, strike pressure, and open-interest concentration before selecting trade structure.

Max Pain Strike

$83.00

Nearest expiry

Expected Move

±$2.37

±2.8%

Days to Expiry

Calendar days

Total Call OI

14,270

Nearest expiry

Total Put OI

6,594

Nearest expiry

P/C OI Ratio

0.46

Put-heavy

Spot Price

$85.51

Published close

Consensus

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Max Pain by Expiration

Pain by Strike

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Selected: 2026-07-10

Expiration	Max Pain Strike	Last Updated
2026-06-26	$83.00	6/26/2026, 11:35:27 PM
2026-07-02	$84.00	7/2/2026, 11:35:12 PM
2026-07-10NextUpdated	$83.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:33 PM
2026-07-17	$80.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:33 PM
2026-07-24	$85.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:33 PM
2026-07-31	$83.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:33 PM
2026-08-07	$83.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:33 PM
2026-08-21	$82.50	7/3/2026, 11:33:33 PM
2026-09-18	$80.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:33 PM
2026-10-16	$80.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:33 PM
2026-11-20	$80.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:33 PM
2026-12-18	$80.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:33 PM
2027-01-15	$75.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:33 PM
2027-03-19	$77.50	7/3/2026, 11:33:33 PM
2027-06-17	$75.00	7/3/2026, 11:33:33 PM

Selected expiration: 2026-07-10 at max pain $83.00.

WFC pain by strike for 2026-07-10 expiration
Strike	Call Pain	Put Pain	Total Pain
60	0	12405700	12405700
64	0	9768500	9768500
65	0	9109400	9109400
66	100	8451000	8451100
67	200	7793100	7793300
68	500	7138700	7139200
69	800	6499300	6500100
70	1100	5875300	5876400
71	1400	5302700	5304100
72	1700	4746900	4748600
73	2000	4192400	4194400
74	2300	3639800	3642100
75	2700	3136000	3138700
76	18800	2680100	2698900
77	35600	2236200	2271800
78	58800	1805100	1863900
79	91800	1391700	1483500
80	126800	1021400	1148200
81	180600	701800	882400
82	248200	446000	694200

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.