Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 6:38 PM ET

BROS max pain

Spot (delayed)$35.27
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:38 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 27Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$3.18
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:38 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-27 expiration = 3.18 USD, 9.0% of 35.27 spot.
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±9.0% by Fri, Nov 27
Put/Call OI0.61
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:38 PM ET
How569 put contracts / 940 call contracts = 0.61 for the 2026-11-27 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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569 puts / 940 calls
Call wall$51
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:38 PM ET
How51.00 for the 2026-11-27 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$43
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:38 PM ET
How43.00 for the 2026-11-27 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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largest put OI
IV3048.3%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:38 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$6K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:38 PM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2026-11-27 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

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 5.7% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 13$36+2.1%3d
Fri, Nov 20one strike decides10d
Fri, Nov 27one strike decides17d
Fri, Dec 4one strike decides24d
Fri, Dec 11$39+10.6%31d
Fri, Dec 18one strike decides38d
Fri, Jan 15one strike decides66d
Fri, Apr 16one strike decides157d
Fri, May 21one strike decides192d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 5.7% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot3035384247529999
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BROS open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 27.

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 27

spot313335.538.5424343
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot303540455055131%38%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 52.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot303538424752+$5K−$5K
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 27

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.91-0.02300.03510.01-0.02-0.09
0.88-0.03310.04790.02-0.03-0.13
0.82-0.03320.06300.02-0.03-0.18
0.75-0.04330.07930.02-0.04-0.25
0.67-0.04340.09400.03-0.04-0.34
0.56-0.04350.10390.03-0.04-0.44
0.51-0.0435.50.10610.03-0.04-0.49
0.46-0.04360.10620.03-0.04-0.55
0.36-0.04370.10040.03-0.04-0.65
0.31-0.0437.50.09500.03-0.04-0.69
0.27-0.04380.08850.03-0.04-0.74
0.23-0.0338.50.08130.02-0.03-0.78
0.20-0.03390.07380.02-0.03-0.81
0.14-0.03400.05910.02-0.03-0.87

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 28 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot2432374247532K0
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

spot183338.54757.5809K9K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 61K call contracts, 30K 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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