HowThe settle strike with the smallest total payout to option holders for the 2026-11-06 expiration, over 81 strikes carrying 3,328 open contracts. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:04 AM ET
How1,558 put contracts / 1,770 call contracts = 0.88 for the 2026-11-06 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:04 AM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2026-11-06 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.
Event risk before this expiration:Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.
■ put-side pain■ call-side painTotal payout option writers would owe at each settle price (both sides, all open interest, ×100 shares) — low settles hurt put writers, high settles hurt call writers. The minimum — 420 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 6
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AXON open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 6. Showing the 60 largest of 81 strikes by open interest, 97.6% of the total.
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 6
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 6
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 161.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 6
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, Nov 6
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.68
-3.41
400
0.0050
0.16
-3.43
-0.32
0.65
-3.53
405
0.0051
0.17
-3.55
-0.35
0.64
-3.58
407.5
0.0052
0.17
-3.60
-0.36
0.62
-3.63
410
0.0053
0.17
-3.65
-0.38
0.61
-3.67
412.5
0.0053
0.17
-3.69
-0.39
0.60
-3.71
415
0.0054
0.17
-3.73
-0.41
0.57
-3.77
420
0.0054
0.18
-3.78
-0.43
0.54
-3.80
425
0.0055
0.18
-3.82
-0.46
0.53
-3.81
427.5
0.0055
0.18
-3.83
-0.47
0.51
-3.82
430
0.0055
0.18
-3.84
-0.49
0.50
-3.82
432.5
0.0055
0.18
-3.84
-0.50
0.49
-3.81
435
0.0055
0.18
-3.83
-0.52
0.46
-3.79
440
0.0055
0.18
-3.81
-0.54
0.43
-3.74
445
0.0055
0.18
-3.76
-0.57
0.41
-3.68
450
0.0054
0.17
-3.70
-0.59
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 60 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.
Stacked — layer the expirations
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.
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.