SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 6:12 PM ET
How4 put contracts / 57 call contracts = 0.07 for the 2026-11-20 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
Too thin to read: 61 open contracts across 12 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)CNBS 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
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 66.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Greeks by strike · Fri, Nov 20
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.89
-0.05
18
0.0319
0.01
-0.05
-0.11
0.84
-0.05
20
0.0540
0.01
-0.05
-0.17
0.79
-0.05
21
0.0719
0.01
-0.05
-0.21
0.39
-0.06
25
0.1126
0.02
-0.06
-0.62
0.26
-0.06
27
0.0784
0.01
-0.06
-0.75
0.19
-0.06
29
0.0563
0.01
-0.06
-0.82
0.17
-0.06
30
0.0487
0.01
-0.06
-0.84
0.15
-0.06
31
0.0427
0.01
-0.06
-0.86
0.12
-0.05
33
0.0338
0.01
-0.05
-0.88
0.11
-0.05
34
0.0304
0.01
-0.05
-0.89
0.10
-0.05
35
0.0276
0.01
-0.05
-0.90
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 11 strikes around the money — all 12 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.