Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 6:26 PM ET

GLW max pain

Spot (delayed)$112.5
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:26 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Feb 19Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$28.7
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:26 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2027-02-19 expiration = 28.70 USD, 25.5% of 112.50 spot.
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±25.5% by Fri, Feb 19
Put/Call OI0.99
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:26 PM ET
How26,703 put contracts / 27,008 call contracts = 0.99 for the 2027-02-19 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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27K puts / 27K calls
Call wall$95
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:26 PM ET
How95.00 for the 2027-02-19 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$75
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:26 PM ET
How75.00 for the 2027-02-19 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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largest put OI
IV3064.4%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:26 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$120K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:26 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.
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per 1% move · flip ≈ $70

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 35.6% 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$120+6.7%3d
Fri, Nov 20$135+20.0%10d
Fri, Nov 27$130+15.6%17d
Fri, Dec 4$125+11.1%24d
Fri, Dec 11$120+6.7%31d
Fri, Dec 18$140+24.4%38d
Fri, Jan 15$135+20.0%66d
Fri, Feb 19one strike decides101d
Fri, Mar 19$130+15.6%129d
Fri, Apr 16$140+24.4%157d
Fri, May 21$145+28.9%192d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 35.6% 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

spot6010014018024032017K17K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GLW 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

spot6595115135160180219219
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot6012418825231638094%53%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 61.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spotflip 7060100140180240320+$1.6M−$1.6M
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
0.90-0.03750.00410.10-0.03-0.10
0.87-0.04800.00510.12-0.04-0.13
0.84-0.04850.00620.14-0.05-0.16
0.80-0.05900.00730.17-0.05-0.20
0.75-0.06950.00830.19-0.06-0.25
0.70-0.061000.00920.20-0.06-0.30
0.65-0.061050.01000.22-0.07-0.35
0.60-0.071100.01060.23-0.07-0.40
0.55-0.071150.01100.23-0.07-0.46
0.49-0.071200.01110.23-0.07-0.51
0.44-0.071250.01110.23-0.07-0.57
0.39-0.071300.01080.23-0.07-0.62
0.35-0.061350.01040.22-0.06-0.67
0.30-0.061400.00990.21-0.06-0.71
0.27-0.061450.00930.19-0.05-0.75

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 47 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot70106119132152.52208K0
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

spot4082.511515019026038K38K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 289K call contracts, 365K 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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