Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 8:53 PM ET

GWRE max pain

Spot (delayed)$155.48
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:53 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Apr 16Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$48.6
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:53 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2027-04-16 expiration = 48.60 USD, 31.3% of 155.48 spot.
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±31.3% by Fri, Apr 16
Put/Call OI5.82
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:53 PM ET
How2,647 put contracts / 455 call contracts = 5.82 for the 2027-04-16 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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3K puts / 455 calls
Call wall$240
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:53 PM ET
How240.00 for the 2027-04-16 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$210
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:53 PM ET
How210.00 for the 2027-04-16 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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largest put OI
IV3066.8%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:53 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$312K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:53 PM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2027-04-16 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 ≈ $180

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 6.4% 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 20$150-3.5%9d
Fri, Dec 18one strike decides37d
Fri, Jan 15$145-6.7%65d
Fri, Apr 16one strike decides156d
Fri, Nov 19too thin373d
Fri, Dec 17$200+28.6%401d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 6.4% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Apr 16

spot751051351651952501K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)GWRE open contracts per strike for Fri, Apr 16.

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, Apr 16

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Apr 16

spot7512016521025530077%58%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 60.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Apr 16

spotflip 18075105135165195250+$179K−$179K
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, Apr 16

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.81-0.041200.00420.28-0.05-0.19
0.78-0.051250.00460.30-0.06-0.22
0.75-0.051300.00500.32-0.06-0.25
0.72-0.061350.00530.34-0.07-0.28
0.69-0.061400.00560.36-0.07-0.31
0.66-0.071450.00590.37-0.07-0.34
0.63-0.071500.00610.38-0.07-0.37
0.60-0.071550.00620.39-0.07-0.41
0.57-0.071600.00640.40-0.07-0.44
0.54-0.071650.00650.40-0.07-0.47
0.51-0.071700.00650.41-0.07-0.50
0.48-0.071750.00650.41-0.07-0.53
0.45-0.071800.00650.40-0.07-0.56
0.42-0.071850.00640.40-0.07-0.59
0.39-0.071900.00630.39-0.07-0.62

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 36 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot55951351752303107660
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

spot55951351752303102K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 9K call contracts, 7K 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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