Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 6:31 PM ET

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Spot (delayed)$80.5
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:31 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Feb 19Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$29.25
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:31 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2027-02-19 expiration = 29.25 USD, 36.3% of 80.50 spot.
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±36.3% by Fri, Feb 19
Put/Call OI1.06
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:31 PM ET
How1,440 put contracts / 1,355 call contracts = 1.06 for the 2027-02-19 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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1K puts / 1K calls
Call wall$130
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:31 PM ET
How130.00 for the 2027-02-19 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$115
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:31 PM ET
How115.00 for the 2027-02-19 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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largest put OI
IV3091.6%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:31 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$30K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:31 PM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2027-02-19 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 12.4% 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 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 13$85+5.6%3d
Fri, Nov 20$103+28.0%10d
Fri, Nov 27one strike decides17d
Fri, Dec 4$88+9.3%24d
Fri, Dec 11$88+9.3%31d
Fri, Dec 18$100+24.2%38d
Fri, Jan 15one strike decides66d
Fri, Feb 19one strike decides101d
Fri, Mar 19$130+61.5%129d
Fri, May 21$105+30.4%192d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 12.4% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot5085120155190250307307
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)DOCN open contracts per strike for Fri, Feb 19.

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, Feb 19

spot6580951151401919
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot5092134176218260104%75%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 88.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot5085120155190250+$19K−$19K
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, Feb 19

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.88-0.03500.00490.08-0.04-0.12
0.85-0.04550.00600.10-0.05-0.16
0.80-0.05600.00720.12-0.05-0.20
0.76-0.06650.00830.13-0.06-0.25
0.70-0.06700.00920.14-0.06-0.30
0.65-0.07750.01000.15-0.07-0.35
0.60-0.07800.01060.16-0.07-0.41
0.55-0.07850.01100.17-0.07-0.46
0.49-0.07900.01110.17-0.07-0.51
0.45-0.07950.01110.17-0.07-0.56
0.40-0.071000.01090.16-0.07-0.61
0.36-0.061050.01060.16-0.06-0.66
0.32-0.061100.01010.15-0.06-0.70
0.28-0.061150.00960.14-0.06-0.73

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 37 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot42.577.5891041241803K0
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

spot155582.510515521010K10K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 70K call contracts, 62K 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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