Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 9, 8:43 PM ET

EET max pain

Spot (delayed)$88.86
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:43 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 20Not showntoo thin to read
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$7.83
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:43 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-20 expiration = 7.83 USD, 8.8% of 88.86 spot.
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±8.8% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI1.60
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:43 PM ET
How8 put contracts / 5 call contracts = 1.60 for the 2026-11-20 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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8 puts / 5 calls
IV3053.4%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:43 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol

Too thin to read: 13 open contracts across 10 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 20too thin10d
Fri, Dec 18too thin38d
Fri, Jan 15too thin66d
Fri, Apr 16too thin157d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Too thin to read: 13 open contracts across 10 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot759010011012022
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)EET 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

spot7589103117131145206%53%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 62.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Fri, Nov 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.96-0.04750.01160.01-0.04-0.05
0.87-0.09800.02540.03-0.09-0.14
0.46-0.15900.04950.06-0.15-0.54
0.24-0.11950.03880.05-0.11-0.76
0.11-0.071000.02240.03-0.07-0.89
0.04-0.031060.00930.01-0.03-0.96
0.02-0.011100.00490.01-0.01-0.98
0.01-0.011160.00190.00-0.00-0.99
0.00-0.001200.00100.00not quoted-0.99
0.000.00145not quoted0.00not quoted-1.00

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

spot7095113125155130
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

spot45931031131231651313
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 78 call contracts, 40 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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