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 27Not showntoo thin to read
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.53
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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 2026-11-27 expiration = 1.53 USD, 24.4% of 6.26 spot.
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±24.4% by Fri, Nov 27
Put/Call OI0.04
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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
How3 put contracts / 73 call contracts = 0.04 for the 2026-11-27 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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3 puts / 73 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: 76 open contracts across 8 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: 76 open contracts across 8 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot14795050
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ABTC open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 27.

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 27

spot678102222
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot4568910255%119%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 120.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Fri, Nov 27

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.99-0.0010.00420.00-0.00-0.01
0.98-0.0020.01300.00-0.00-0.02
0.91-0.0140.07070.00-0.01-0.10
0.60-0.0160.21180.01-0.01-0.40
0.41-0.0170.20310.01-0.01-0.60
0.28-0.0180.16160.01-0.01-0.73
0.20-0.0190.12500.01-0.01-0.81
0.15-0.01100.09810.00-0.01-0.85

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. 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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