Max Pain

GET https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/stock/{ticker}/max-pain

Request

Security: Bearer Auth Authorization: Bearer <token>

Path Parameters

ticker SingleTicker required

A single ticker

Example: AAPL

Query Parameters

date Optional Market Date optional

A trading date in the format of YYYY-MM-DD. This is optional and by default the last trading date.

Example: 2024-01-18

Responses

200 422 500

Response Body 200 OK

expiry Option Contract Expiry

The contract expiry date in ISO format.

Example: 2023-12-22

max_pain string

The max pain for the given expiry

Example: 472

Try It GET

API Token

Path Parameters

ticker required

Query Parameters

date Optional Market Date

Request Sample

curl -X GET "https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/stock/{ticker}/max-pain" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.unusualwhales.com")
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY", "Accept": "application/json"}
conn.request("GET", "/api/stock/{ticker}/max-pain", headers=headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
print(response.read().decode("utf-8"))

Response Example 200

{
  "data": [
    {
      "expiry": "2024-03-04",
      "max_pain": "473"
    },
    {
      "expiry": "2024-03-05",
      "max_pain": "475"
    }
  ],
  "date": "2024-03-04"
}