Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 9, 8:47 PM ET

DAL max pain

Spot (delayed)$91.81
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:47 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$85
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceMax pain from Cboe open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:47 PM ET
HowThe settle strike with the smallest total payout to option holders for the 2026-11-13 expiration, over 41 strikes carrying 25,955 open contracts. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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-7.4% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$3.86
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:47 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-13 expiration = 3.86 USD, 4.2% of 91.81 spot.
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±4.2% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.32
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:47 PM ET
How6,262 put contracts / 19,693 call contracts = 0.32 for the 2026-11-13 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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6K puts / 20K calls
Call wall$90
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:47 PM ET
How90.00 for the 2026-11-13 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$76
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:47 PM ET
How76.00 for the 2026-11-13 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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largest put OI
IV3041.5%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:47 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$10.6M
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:47 PM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2026-11-13 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 ≈ $86

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 13$85-7.4%3d
Fri, Nov 20$81-11.8%10d
Fri, Nov 27$87-5.2%17d
Fri, Dec 4$82-10.7%24d
Fri, Dec 11$85-7.4%31d
Fri, Dec 18$75-18.3%38d
Fri, Jan 15$75-18.3%66d
Fri, Mar 19$77.5-15.6%129d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot8550637689102115$50M$0
■ put-side pain■ call-side painTotal payout option writers would owe at each settle price (both sides, all open interest, ×100 shares) — low settles hurt put writers, high settles hurt call writers. The minimum — 85 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot855068758289966K6K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)DAL open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 13.

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 13

spot855069768390974K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot60718293104115189%41%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 50.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 866572798693105+$3.8M−$3.8M
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 13

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.92-0.09850.02890.01-0.09-0.08
0.89-0.12860.03760.02-0.12-0.12
0.84-0.15870.04720.02-0.15-0.16
0.79-0.18880.05710.03-0.18-0.21
0.73-0.21890.06650.03-0.21-0.27
0.66-0.24900.07440.04-0.24-0.34
0.58-0.25910.07990.04-0.26-0.42
0.50-0.26920.08210.04-0.26-0.50
0.42-0.25930.08070.04-0.25-0.58
0.34-0.23940.07580.04-0.23-0.66
0.27-0.20950.06850.03-0.21-0.73
0.21-0.17960.05940.03-0.17-0.80
0.16-0.14970.04970.02-0.14-0.85
0.12-0.11980.04010.02-0.11-0.89
0.06-0.061000.02380.01-0.06-0.95

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 41 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot507279879411026K0
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

spot205069798999236K236K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 656K call contracts, 198K 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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