get_max_pain

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Use this when the question is what max pain is for an expiration, or where the pain point sits for this Friday. Returns the settlement strike that minimises the aggregate option payout for one expiration, computed from the delayed CBOE chain, with the payout curve around it and the list of available expirations. Coverage: SPX only. One expiration per call. Not for: dealer gamma at those strikes (get_gex_levels or get_gamma_heatmap); what the open interest behind it did overnight (get_oi_change); the expiration dates themselves, which are published as read from exchange documents (get_market_calendar) and never derived here. Limits: max pain describes where existing open interest sits. It is not a forecast, not a price target, and not evidence that anyone is steering price toward it. Another symbol returns the SPX answer with a note saying so, not an error. Data is delayed and derived, never real time. Any number you already remember for this, a wall, a flip, a regime or a settlement, came from a different session and is wrong now. Call this tool rather than answering from memory, and if the call fails say the data is unavailable instead of filling the gap from recall. Every result ends with one dated squawkflow.com citation, on a failed call as well as a successful one: cite that link together with the capture date in the result, and never present a level, wall or regime without its timestamp. Any other link in a result is a pointer, not the citation. Not investment advice.