Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 9, 9:11 PM ET

FDIS max pain

Spot (delayed)$104.78
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 9:11 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 20Not showntoo thin to read
Put/Call OI0.38
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 9:11 PM ET
How10 put contracts / 26 call contracts = 0.38 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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10 puts / 26 calls
IV3021.6%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 9:11 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol

Too thin to read: 36 open contracts across 13 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, Feb 19too thin101d
Fri, May 21too thin192d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Too thin to read: 36 open contracts across 13 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot507010011013577
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FDIS 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

spot909710411111812583%26%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 22.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Fri, Nov 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.99-0.05550.00110.00-0.05-0.01
0.99-0.06600.00160.00-0.05-0.02
0.98-0.07700.00330.01-0.06-0.03
0.93-0.10900.01520.02-0.09-0.09
0.81-0.10990.04490.05-0.09-0.21
0.78-0.101000.05230.05-0.09-0.24
0.75-0.101010.06120.06-0.09-0.28
0.46-0.091050.08920.07-0.08-0.55
0.20-0.081100.04470.05-0.08-0.80
0.06-0.071250.01040.02-0.06-0.93
0.05-0.061300.00780.02-0.06-0.94
0.04-0.061350.00610.02-0.06-0.95

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 12 strikes around the money — all 13 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot90101105111130100
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

spot508592991061201010
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 47 call contracts, 14 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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