Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 4, 2:48 AM ET

AGL max pain

Spot (delayed)$87.79
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 4, 2:48 AM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Jan 15Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$24.6
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 4, 2:48 AM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2027-01-15 expiration = 24.60 USD, 28.0% of 87.79 spot.
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±28.0% by Fri, Jan 15
Put/Call OI1.92
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 4, 2:48 AM ET
How1,716 put contracts / 896 call contracts = 1.92 for the 2027-01-15 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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2K puts / 896 calls
Call wall$115
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 4, 2:48 AM ET
How115.00 for the 2027-01-15 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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largest call OI
Put wall$25
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 4, 2:48 AM ET
How25.00 for the 2027-01-15 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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largest put OI
IV3096.8%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 4, 2:48 AM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$2K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 4, 2:48 AM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2027-01-15 expiration: (call gamma × call OI minus put gamma × put OI) × 100 × spot² × 1%, summed. Calls count as positive and puts as negative, a convention about who holds the other side, not a measurement.
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per 1% move · flip ≈ $17

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 11.4% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 20$90+2.5%16d
Fri, Dec 18too thin44d
Fri, Jan 15one strike decides72d
Fri, Mar 19one strike decides135d
Fri, Apr 16too thin163d
Fri, Dec 17$95+8.2%408d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 11.4% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot3243550100150300300
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AGL open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 15.

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, Jan 15

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot33976112149185298%76%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 78.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spotflip 1712273855100145+$9K−$9K
Net dealer gamma per strike, in dollars per 1% move, assuming the standard convention (dealers long calls, short puts) — an assumption, not an observation. Above the amber flip level hedging tends to dampen moves; below it, to amplify them.

Greeks by strike · Fri, Jan 15

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.91-0.04550.00440.07-0.04-0.10
0.87-0.05600.00570.08-0.05-0.13
0.83-0.06650.00710.10-0.06-0.17
0.79-0.07700.00850.11-0.07-0.21
0.73-0.07750.00990.13-0.07-0.27
0.68-0.08800.01110.14-0.08-0.33
0.61-0.08850.01190.15-0.08-0.39
0.55-0.08900.01250.15-0.09-0.45
0.49-0.09950.01270.16-0.09-0.51
0.43-0.081000.01260.15-0.08-0.57
0.38-0.081050.01220.15-0.08-0.62
0.33-0.081100.01160.14-0.08-0.67
0.29-0.071150.01090.13-0.07-0.72
0.26-0.071200.01010.13-0.07-0.75
0.22-0.061250.00930.12-0.06-0.79

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 56 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot3243246901301740
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

spot323344595150826826
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 5K call contracts, 4K 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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