Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 3, 7:27 PM ET

GSUI max pain

Spot (delayed)$13.02
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 7:27 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 20Not showntoo thin to read
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.78
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 7:27 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-20 expiration = 1.78 USD, 13.6% of 13.02 spot.
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±13.6% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.10
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 7:27 PM ET
How6 put contracts / 63 call contracts = 0.10 for the 2026-11-20 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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6 puts / 63 calls
IV3075.0%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
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HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol

Too thin to read: 69 open contracts across 11 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 20too thin10d
Fri, Dec 18too thin38d
Fri, Feb 19$11-15.5%101d
Fri, May 21$10-23.2%192d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Too thin to read: 69 open contracts across 11 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot711131517201212
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GSUI open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.

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, Nov 20

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot71012151720178%76%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 79.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Fri, Nov 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.94-0.0270.02000.00-0.02-0.06
0.85-0.03100.06140.01-0.03-0.15
0.79-0.03110.09200.01-0.03-0.21
0.69-0.03120.13770.01-0.03-0.31
0.53-0.03130.17940.01-0.03-0.47
0.37-0.03140.16500.01-0.03-0.63
0.26-0.03150.12720.01-0.02-0.73
0.20-0.02160.09800.01-0.02-0.79
0.17-0.02170.07790.01-0.02-0.83
0.14-0.02180.06380.01-0.02-0.86
0.11-0.02200.04610.01-0.02-0.89

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

spot712151825870
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

spot1611162130130130
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 512 call contracts, 8 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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