Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 4:24 PM ET

BLV max pain

Spot (delayed)$64.73
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 4:24 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Thu, Jun 17Not showntoo thin to read
Put/Call OI1.57
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 4:24 PM ET
How11 put contracts / 7 call contracts = 1.57 for the 2027-06-17 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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11 puts / 7 calls
IV309.8%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 4:24 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol

Too thin to read: 18 open contracts across 13 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Event risk before this expiration: 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 20too thin10d
Fri, Dec 18$65+0.4%38d
Fri, Mar 19$62-4.2%129d
Thu, Jun 17too thin219d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Too thin to read: 18 open contracts across 13 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot545762667144
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BLV open contracts per strike for Thu, Jun 17.

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 · Thu, Jun 17

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot54576164687114%10%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 10.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.98not quoted550.01510.03-0.00-0.07
0.96-0.00560.02330.04-0.00-0.09
0.94-0.00570.03180.06-0.00-0.11
0.90-0.00580.03950.09-0.00-0.14
0.77-0.00610.05860.15-0.00-0.27
0.70-0.00620.06550.17-0.00-0.32
0.57-0.01640.07640.19-0.00-0.46
0.49-0.01650.07850.19-0.00-0.53
0.41-0.00660.07770.19-0.00-0.61
0.34-0.00670.07390.18-0.00-0.68
0.21-0.00690.05890.14-0.00-0.81
0.12-0.00710.04030.10-0.00-0.89

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 12 strikes around the money — all 13 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot5863666972781680
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

spot5459646974168168
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 511 call contracts, 148 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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