Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 7:17 PM ET

FPS max pain

Spot (delayed)$21.64
⊙
EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:17 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
Open the source document →
Max pain · Fri, Feb 19Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$9
⊙
INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:17 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2027-02-19 expiration = 9.00 USD, 41.6% of 21.64 spot.
Open the source document →
±41.6% by Fri, Feb 19
Put/Call OI0.68
⊙
INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:17 PM ET
How8,156 put contracts / 11,951 call contracts = 0.68 for the 2027-02-19 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
Open the source document →
8K puts / 12K calls
Call wall$40
⊙
INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:17 PM ET
How40.00 for the 2027-02-19 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
Open the source document →
largest call OI
Put wall$40
⊙
INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:17 PM ET
How40.00 for the 2027-02-19 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
Open the source document →
largest put OI
IV30117.1%
⊙
EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:17 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
Open the source document →
30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$25K
⊙
INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:17 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.
Open the source document →
per 1% move · flip ≈ $40

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 23.1% 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$20.5-5.3%3d
Fri, Nov 20$27.5+27.1%10d
Fri, Nov 27one strike decides17d
Fri, Dec 4$23+6.3%24d
Fri, Dec 11$23+6.3%31d
Fri, Dec 18one strike decides38d
Fri, Jan 15$32.5+50.2%66d
Fri, Feb 19one strike decides101d
Fri, May 21one strike decides192d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 23.1% 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

spot12.52537.550755K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FPS 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

spot1017.527.53542.5500500
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot132946627995148%86%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 98.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spotflip 4012.52537.55075+$20K−$20K
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
0.89-0.0112.50.01460.02-0.01-0.11
0.83-0.01150.02100.03-0.01-0.17
0.75-0.0217.50.02700.04-0.02-0.25
0.67-0.02200.03170.04-0.02-0.34
0.58-0.0222.50.03480.04-0.02-0.42
0.50-0.02250.03600.04-0.02-0.51
0.42-0.0227.50.03560.04-0.02-0.59
0.35-0.02300.03410.04-0.02-0.66
0.30-0.0232.50.03180.04-0.02-0.71
0.25-0.02350.02910.04-0.02-0.77
0.21-0.0137.50.02620.03-0.01-0.81
0.17-0.01400.02340.03-0.01-0.85

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 12 strikes around the money — all 25 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1220.525.53137.57510K0
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

spot2.515.52228.53547.517K17K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 133K 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.

Keep going: FPS workspace · max pain, explained in full · options profit calculator · iron condor and credit spread calculator · GEX, defined · pin risk