SKHY · expected move and max pain by expiry

SK hynix is priced to move 10.6% by 2026-Nov-13, with max pain at 137.00.

Options price a ±10.62% move (about $14.08) by 2026-Nov-13 (Fri), a range of 118.51 to 146.67 from the last price of 132.59. Max pain for that expiry is 137.00.

SKHY
SK hynix Inc.
Last
132.59 +5.25 (4.1%)
Next expiry move
±10.62% 4 days
Implied vol
89.6% 11 days
Put / call
0.51
Market open
Fetched 2026-11-09, 02:32:20 PM ET
expected range last price 132.59 max painAxis 98 to 167, shared by every row
Expiry
Expected range (1 SD)
Expected move
Max pain
Odds inside
2026-Nov-13Fri, 4 days
Expected move±10.62%±$14.08
Max pain137.003.3% above last price
Odds of closing inside68%put/call 0.51
2026-Nov-20Fri, 11 days
Expected move±15.56%±$20.63
Max pain155.0016.9% above last price
Odds of closing inside69%put/call 0.65
2026-Nov-27Fri, 18 days
Expected move±18.14%±$24.05
Max pain152.5015.0% above last price
Odds of closing inside69%put/call 1.07
2026-Dec-04Fri, 25 days
Expected move±20.61%±$27.33
Max pain142.007.1% above last price
Odds of closing inside69%put/call 1.52
2026-Dec-11Fri, 32 days
Expected move±23.29%±$30.88
Max pain135.001.8% above last price
Odds of closing inside69%put/call 0.58
Key levels from open interest
125.00 / 133.00

The heaviest put open interest near the price sits at 125.00 and the heaviest call open interest at 133.00, weighted toward strikes close to the last price. Price sometimes gravitates toward large open interest into expiry.

SKHY max pain by expiry

SK hynix's max pain for 2026-Nov-13 is 137.00, 3.3% above the last price. It is the strike at which the calls and puts open for that expiry would pay out the least in total, computed from open interest. Price sometimes drifts toward it in the final session because of dealer hedging; treat it as a reference level, not a target. How max pain is calculated.

ExpiryMax painFrom last pricePut/call
2026-Nov-13 Fri137.00+3.3%0.51
2026-Nov-20 Fri155.00+16.9%0.65
2026-Nov-27 Fri152.50+15.0%1.07
2026-Dec-04 Fri142.00+7.1%1.52
2026-Dec-11 Fri135.00+1.8%0.58

SKHY put/call ratio

The put/call ratio for the 2026-Nov-13 expiry is 0.51: well under 1, so traders hold noticeably more calls than puts on that date. Readings well below 0.7 are often read as complacent and above 1.2 as fearful, and extremes are sometimes taken as contrarian signals, but on index products like SPY a high ratio is normal because puts are bought as insurance. It is a sentiment gauge, not a direction call. What the ratio measures and what it does not, or compare it with every tracked stock's put/call ratio today.

Stayed in range, 55 forecasts
40%

SKHY finished inside the expected range we showed 40% of the time, across every forecast checked since 2026-Oct-02. Correctly priced options would give about 68%; higher means its options expected bigger moves than happened.

Moved vs expected
151%

How big SKHY's moves were compared with what its options priced in; 100% means priced right, below means overpriced. On average it moved 12.63% against an expected range of ±10.44%. Left the range: 2 up, 31 down. How this is worked out.

By days before expiry
1 day: 60% stayed in range (5)
2 to 7 days: 21% stayed in range (14)
8 to 14 days: 40% stayed in range (15)
15 to 35 days: 48% stayed in range (21)

Forecasts grouped by how many days before expiry they were made. Machine-readable: /api/history/SKHY; sitewide: track record.

Reading the SKHY expected move table

Each row is one expiry. The shaded band is the one-standard-deviation range the option chain implies for SKHY on that date: the market gives roughly a two-in-three chance that SKHY closes inside it and a one-in-three chance it closes outside. The black tick is the last traded price, 132.59. The diamond is max pain, the strike where option holders would collect the least if the stock settled there.

The range widens with time because uncertainty compounds with the square root of time: the 2026-Dec-11 range (±23.29%) is wider than the 2026-Nov-13 range (±10.62%) even though the daily volatility behind both is the same. Read the methodology for the formulas, or the guide to what the expected move means in practice.

Figures are derived from delayed public option data and recalculated through the trading day. Nothing on this page is investment advice. Machine-readable version: /api/expected-move/SKHY. Every ticker the site tracks is listed at /stocks.

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