Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 7:22 PM ET

GIS max pain

Spot (delayed)$34.6
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:22 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Thu, Jun 17Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$7
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:22 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2027-06-17 expiration = 7.00 USD, 20.2% of 34.60 spot.
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±20.2% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI1.25
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:22 PM ET
How8,788 put contracts / 7,006 call contracts = 1.25 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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9K puts / 7K calls
Call wall$37.5
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:22 PM ET
How37.50 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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largest call OI
Put wall$35
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:22 PM ET
How35.00 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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largest put OI
IV3034.6%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:22 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$92K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:22 PM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2027-06-17 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.
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per 1% move

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 7.2% 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 20one strike decides10d
Fri, Dec 18$35+1.2%38d
Fri, Jan 15$37.5+8.4%66d
Fri, Mar 19$35+1.2%129d
Fri, Apr 16$35+1.2%157d
Thu, Jun 17one strike decides219d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 7.2% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot17.52532.54047.53K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GIS 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

spot2530354055121121
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot18253340485549%32%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 32.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot17.52532.54047.5+$157K−$157K
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 · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
1.00not quoted17.50.00100.00-0.00-0.02
0.99not quoted200.00390.01-0.00-0.03
0.970.0022.50.01000.02-0.00-0.06
0.92-0.00250.01840.04-0.00-0.11
0.85-0.0027.50.02710.06-0.01-0.17
0.76-0.01300.03540.08-0.01-0.26
0.66-0.0132.50.04230.10-0.01-0.37
0.55-0.01350.04590.10-0.01-0.48
0.44-0.0137.50.04580.10-0.01-0.59
0.35-0.01400.04260.10-0.01-0.69
0.27-0.0142.50.03760.09-0.01-0.77
0.20-0.01450.03190.07-0.00-0.83
0.15-0.0147.50.02650.06-0.00-0.88
0.12-0.00500.02160.05-0.00-0.92
0.07-0.00550.01420.04not quoted-0.96

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

spot17.532.547.562.577.510019K0
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

spot17.532.547.562.577.510026K26K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 135K call contracts, 103K 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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