Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 9, 8:46 PM ET

DFDV max pain

Spot (delayed)$3.42
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:46 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 13Not showntoo thin to read
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.65
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:46 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-13 expiration = 0.65 USD, 19.0% of 3.42 spot.
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±19.0% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.00
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:46 PM ET
How0 put contracts / 27 call contracts = 0.00 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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0 puts / 27 calls

Too thin to read: 27 open contracts across 3 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 13too thin3d
Fri, Nov 20$5+46.2%10d
Fri, Nov 27too thin17d
Fri, Dec 18$5+46.2%38d
Fri, Jan 15$2.5-26.9%66d
Fri, Apr 16one strike decides157d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Too thin to read: 27 open contracts across 3 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot33.542424
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)DFDV 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

Greeks by strike · Fri, Nov 13

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.79-0.0330.43480.00-0.03-0.21
0.49-0.033.50.67910.00-0.03-0.51
0.23-0.0240.48720.00-0.02-0.77

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1.5345691K0
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

spot0.52.54.56.5917.511K11K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 62K call contracts, 6K 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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