Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 2, 9:34 PM ET

ABTC max pain

Spot (delayed)$6.26
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 2, 9:34 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 13Not showntoo thin to read
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.15
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 2, 9:34 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-13 expiration = 1.15 USD, 18.4% of 6.26 spot.
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±18.4% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.06
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 2, 9:34 PM ET
How5 put contracts / 78 call contracts = 0.06 for the 2026-11-13 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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5 puts / 78 calls
IV30111.1%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 2, 9:34 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol

Too thin to read: 83 open contracts across 11 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 6$7+11.8%3d
Fri, Nov 13too thin10d
Fri, Nov 20one strike decides17d
Fri, Nov 27too thin24d
Fri, Dec 18one strike decides45d
Fri, Jan 15$10+59.7%73d
Fri, Mar 19one strike decides136d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Too thin to read: 83 open contracts across 11 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot1681012142020
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ABTC open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 13.

Open-interest change: building vs unwinding

Needs two observed snapshot days for this expiration; the comparison appears automatically once the next weekday snapshot lands. We diff real observations only; nothing is estimated.

Volume by strike · Fri, Nov 13

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot357101214420%131%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 135.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Fri, Nov 13

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.99-0.0110.00460.00-0.01-0.01
0.95-0.0130.03170.00-0.01-0.05
0.59-0.0360.27640.00-0.03-0.41
0.35-0.0370.24610.00-0.03-0.66
0.22-0.0280.17000.00-0.02-0.79
0.15-0.0290.12040.00-0.02-0.85
0.11-0.02100.08970.00-0.02-0.89
0.09-0.02110.06960.00-0.02-0.92
0.07-0.01120.05580.00-0.01-0.93
0.06-0.01130.04580.00-0.01-0.94

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 10 strikes around the money — all 11 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot16.58.510.513202970
Call open interest per strike, stacked across the checked expirations — each color is one expiry. Strikes are pruned to the liquid center of each chain.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot1581114192K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 9K call contracts, 6K put contracts open.

Reading this honestly

Max pain is arithmetic, not prophecy: the settle price that would minimize what option writers pay out at expiration, computed from open interest alone. Prices sometimes gravitate toward heavy strikes into expiry — dealer hedging is a real flow — but the evidence that max pain predicts settlement better than chance is mixed, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Use it as a map of where positioning is stacked, next to the fundamentals and the earnings calendar, not as a target.

Max pain, walls and gamma print only when an expiration holds at least 100 open contracts across 5 strikes, and max pain also needs to stay within 5% of spot when its single heaviest strike is removed. Below that the expiration reads as thin rather than printing a level one trade could move.

Data: Cboe delayed public feed (~15 minutes), refreshed here about every 15 minutes. Open interest itself updates once daily, before the open. Educational information, not investment advice.

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