Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 8:51 PM ET

GBX max pain

Spot (delayed)$41.93
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:51 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Thu, Jun 17Not showntoo thin to read
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$10.15
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:51 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2027-06-17 expiration = 10.15 USD, 24.2% of 41.93 spot.
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±24.2% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI0.32
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:51 PM ET
How18 put contracts / 57 call contracts = 0.32 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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18 puts / 57 calls
IV3037.0%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:51 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Earnings · expectedThu, Jan 7
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceProjected from the company's own 8-K filing cadence
As ofwindow as stored 2026-11-10
HowReport date 2027-01-07. An estimate from the year-over-year reporting pattern, not a confirmed date.
usually after the close

Too thin to read: 75 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 20one strike decides9d
Fri, Dec 18$42.5+1.4%37d
Fri, Mar 19$40-4.6%128d← 1st expiry after earnings (Thu, Jan 7)
Fri, Apr 16one strike decides156d
Thu, Jun 17too thin218d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Too thin to read: 75 open contracts across 11 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot27.535404550602222
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GBX 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

spot28344147546047%36%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 39.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.91-0.0027.50.01110.05-0.01-0.10
0.87-0.01300.01490.06-0.01-0.13
0.77-0.01350.02320.10-0.01-0.24
0.70-0.0137.50.02690.11-0.01-0.30
0.62-0.01400.02990.12-0.01-0.38
0.54-0.0142.50.03170.13-0.01-0.46
0.47-0.01450.03220.13-0.01-0.53
0.39-0.0147.50.03140.12-0.01-0.61
0.33-0.01500.02950.12-0.01-0.67
0.22-0.01550.02420.10-0.01-0.78
0.15-0.01600.01870.07-0.00-0.85

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

spot32.54047.555659050
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

spot2030405060938938
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 3K call contracts, 2K 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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