Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 9, 7:15 PM ET

ASSX max pain

Spot (delayed)$12.37
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:15 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 20Not showntoo thin to read
Put/Call OI7.25
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:15 PM ET
How58 put contracts / 8 call contracts = 7.25 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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58 puts / 8 calls
IV30183.7%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:15 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol

Too thin to read: 66 open contracts across 8 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 18too thin38d
Fri, Mar 19$10-19.1%129d
Thu, Jun 17too thin219d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Too thin to read: 66 open contracts across 8 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot162225302424
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ASSX 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

spot162024273135409%177%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 195.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Fri, Nov 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.30-0.07160.07700.01-0.07-0.69
0.17-0.06200.04940.01-0.06-0.83
0.13-0.05220.04010.01-0.05-0.87
0.11-0.04240.03310.00-0.04-0.89
0.10-0.04250.03020.00-0.04-0.90
0.07-0.04280.02350.00-0.04-0.93
0.06-0.03300.02020.00-0.03-0.94
0.05-0.03350.01450.00-0.02-0.96

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

spot6111523302680
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

spot1713192531268268
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 467 call contracts, 67 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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