Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 9:07 PM ET

FXF max pain

Spot (delayed)$106.62
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:07 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Thu, Jun 17Not showntoo thin to read
Put/Call OI0.23
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:07 PM ET
How10 put contracts / 43 call contracts = 0.23 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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10 puts / 43 calls
IV309.3%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:07 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, 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 20$108+1.3%10d
Fri, Dec 18$106-0.6%38d
Fri, Mar 19$106-0.6%129d
Thu, Jun 17too thin219d

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

spot981061101121141162222
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)FXF 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

spot9810210510911211615%5%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 8.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.88-0.00980.01900.17-0.01-0.12
0.74-0.001050.04610.27-0.01-0.30
0.70-0.001060.05220.29-0.01-0.37
0.60-0.011080.06210.32-0.01-0.54
0.48-0.011100.06100.33-0.01-0.73
0.42-0.011110.05690.32-0.01-0.81
0.38-0.011120.05210.32-0.01-0.87
0.34-0.011130.04720.30-0.01-0.91
0.31-0.011140.04280.29-0.01-0.94
0.28-0.011150.03890.28-0.01-0.95

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

spot991041091141202K0
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

spot961021081141201352K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 2K call contracts, 323 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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