"Max pain can move up a fair amount in the next 3 weeks"
I don't think it will though. The highest probability is a qqq sell off to 26.20....anything can happen but that is the most likely, BUT as you say it is based on the assumption of qqq max pain 26...when I first ran this a month ago, I got spike to 28.80, and that max pain would go to 26, and we would get back down to 26.20 for whatever reason before continuing up. Just mo