Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 4, 11:02 AM ET

BBAI max pain

Spot (delayed)$2.59
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 4, 11:02 AM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 20Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.31
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 4, 11:02 AM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-20 expiration = 0.31 USD, 11.8% of 2.59 spot.
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±11.8% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.37
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 4, 11:02 AM ET
How6,326 put contracts / 16,990 call contracts = 0.37 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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6K puts / 17K calls
Call wall$3
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 4, 11:02 AM ET
How3.00 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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largest call OI
Put wall$3
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 4, 11:02 AM ET
How3.00 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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largest put OI
IV3069.3%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 4, 11:02 AM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$35K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 4, 11:02 AM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2026-11-20 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 ≈ $1.5

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 19.3% 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 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 6$2.5-3.5%2d
Fri, Nov 13$2.5-3.5%9d
Fri, Nov 20one strike decides16d
Fri, Nov 27$2-22.8%23d
Fri, Dec 4$0.5-80.7%30d
Fri, Dec 11one strike decides37d
Fri, Dec 18one strike decides44d
Fri, Jan 15$3.5+35.0%72d
Fri, Mar 19one strike decides135d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 19.3% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot0.51.52.53.54.566K6K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BBAI 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

spot22.533.546268268
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot223456202%69%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 69.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 1.50.51.52.53.54.56+$16K−$16K
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 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
1.000.000.50.00690.000.00-0.00
0.99-0.0010.02590.00-0.00-0.01
0.97-0.001.50.08490.00-0.00-0.03
0.90-0.0020.30420.00-0.00-0.10
0.63-0.012.50.96780.00-0.01-0.37
0.21-0.0030.67600.00-0.00-0.78
0.09-0.003.50.29700.00-0.00-0.91
0.04-0.0040.15300.00-0.00-0.95
0.03-0.004.50.08980.00-0.00-0.97
0.02-0.0050.05760.00-0.00-0.98
0.01-0.0060.02830.000.00-0.99

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

spot0.51.52.53.54.55.515K0
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

spot0.523.5571297K97K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 561K call contracts, 143K 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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