Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 3, 7:12 PM ET

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Spot (delayed)$128.81
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 7:12 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Thu, Jun 17Not showntoo thin to read
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$5.6
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 7:12 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2027-06-17 expiration = 5.60 USD, 4.3% of 128.81 spot.
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±4.3% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI1.65
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 7:12 PM ET
How33 put contracts / 20 call contracts = 1.65 for the 2027-06-17 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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33 puts / 20 calls
IV307.1%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 7:12 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol

Too thin to read: 53 open contracts across 11 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · 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 20too thin16d
Fri, Dec 18$124-3.7%44d
Fri, Mar 19$130+0.9%135d
Thu, Jun 17too thin225d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Too thin to read: 53 open contracts across 11 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot1151191231251291311313
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FXB open contracts per strike for Thu, Jun 17.

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 · Thu, Jun 17

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot11511812112512813112%7%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 7.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.89-0.001180.01850.18-0.00-0.10
0.88-0.001190.02100.20-0.00-0.12
0.86-0.001200.02380.22-0.00-0.14
0.79-0.001230.03450.29-0.01-0.21
0.76-0.001240.03860.31-0.01-0.24
0.72-0.011250.04280.33-0.01-0.28
0.63-0.011270.05050.37-0.01-0.37
0.53-0.011290.05540.39-0.01-0.48
0.47-0.011300.05610.39-0.01-0.54
0.42-0.011310.05550.39-0.01-0.60

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 10 strikes around the money — all 11 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot120124128132137910
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

spot115121126131136145250250
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 282 call contracts, 399 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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