Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 9:14 PM ET

ASR max pain

Spot (delayed)$268.42
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:14 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 20Not showntoo thin to read
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$33.79
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:14 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-20 expiration = 33.79 USD, 12.6% of 268.42 spot.
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±12.6% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.49
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:14 PM ET
How29 put contracts / 59 call contracts = 0.49 for the 2026-11-20 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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29 puts / 59 calls
IV3034.8%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:14 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol

Too thin to read: 88 open contracts across 17 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 20too thin10d
Fri, Dec 18$270+0.6%38d
Fri, Mar 19too thin129d
Thu, Jun 17too thin219d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Too thin to read: 88 open contracts across 17 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot1701852102502903201010
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ASR open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.

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 20

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot170202234266298330169%41%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 44.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Fri, Nov 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.96-0.301900.00190.04-0.28-0.05
0.95-0.322000.00240.04-0.30-0.06
0.94-0.332100.00320.05-0.32-0.07
0.89-0.362300.00580.08-0.35-0.12
0.85-0.382400.00840.10-0.36-0.16
0.79-0.392500.01250.13-0.37-0.22
0.67-0.382600.01910.16-0.37-0.34
0.45-0.352700.02340.17-0.34-0.55
0.18-0.302900.01150.12-0.29-0.82
0.13-0.283000.00800.09-0.27-0.86
0.10-0.263100.00590.08-0.25-0.89
0.08-0.243200.00460.07-0.23-0.91
0.07-0.233300.00360.06-0.22-0.93

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 strikes around the money — all 17 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot170200270320370430330
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

spot1201551902503203903333
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 218 call contracts, 99 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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