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, Dec 4Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$3.38
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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 2026-12-04 expiration = 3.38 USD, 9.6% of 35.27 spot.
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±9.6% by Fri, Dec 4
Put/Call OI0.76
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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
How281 put contracts / 370 call contracts = 0.76 for the 2026-12-04 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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281 puts / 370 calls
Call wall$40
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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
How40.00 for the 2026-12-04 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$45
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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
How45.00 for the 2026-12-04 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+$9K
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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 2026-12-04 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 ≈ $34

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 11.3% 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, Dec 4 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

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 11.3% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Dec 4

spot293438424650127127
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)BROS open contracts per strike for Fri, Dec 4.

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, Dec 4

spot3034364045524545
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Dec 4

spot293439455055127%31%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 46.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Dec 4

spotflip 34293438424650+$7K−$7K
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, Dec 4

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.92-0.02290.02880.01-0.02-0.09
0.89-0.02300.03780.02-0.02-0.12
0.84-0.02310.04850.02-0.03-0.16
0.72-0.03330.07200.03-0.03-0.28
0.65-0.04340.08210.03-0.04-0.36
0.56-0.04350.08860.04-0.04-0.45
0.47-0.04360.09040.04-0.04-0.54
0.38-0.04370.08710.04-0.04-0.62
0.30-0.03380.07970.03-0.03-0.70
0.24-0.03390.06990.03-0.03-0.77
0.18-0.03400.05930.02-0.03-0.83
0.14-0.02410.04910.02-0.02-0.87
0.11-0.02420.04010.02-0.02-0.91

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 strikes around the money — all 24 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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