HowThe settle strike with the smallest total payout to option holders for the 2026-11-27 expiration, over 23 strikes carrying 174 open contracts. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 4, 10:30 PM ET
How67 put contracts / 107 call contracts = 0.63 for the 2026-11-27 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 4, 10:30 PM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2026-11-27 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.
Event risk before this expiration:Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.
■ put-side pain■ call-side painTotal payout option writers would owe at each settle price (both sides, all open interest, ×100 shares) — low settles hurt put writers, high settles hurt call writers. The minimum — 90 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 27
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)HSBC open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 27.
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 27
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 27
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 26.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 27
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, Nov 27
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.89
-0.04
81
0.0336
0.04
-0.03
-0.12
0.83
-0.04
83
0.0389
0.06
-0.04
-0.17
0.80
-0.04
84
0.0433
0.06
-0.04
-0.21
0.75
-0.04
85
0.0484
0.07
-0.05
-0.25
0.71
-0.05
86
0.0543
0.08
-0.05
-0.30
0.65
-0.05
87
0.0601
0.08
-0.05
-0.35
0.59
-0.05
88
0.0649
0.09
-0.05
-0.41
0.46
-0.05
90
0.0685
0.09
-0.05
-0.55
0.39
-0.05
91
0.0666
0.09
-0.05
-0.62
0.33
-0.04
92
0.0626
0.08
-0.05
-0.68
0.22
-0.04
94
0.0507
0.07
-0.04
-0.79
0.18
-0.03
95
0.0442
0.06
-0.04
-0.83
0.15
-0.03
96
0.0381
0.05
-0.03
-0.87
0.07
-0.02
100
0.0196
0.03
-0.02
-0.95
0.06
-0.02
101
0.0165
0.03
-0.01
-0.96
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 23 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.
Stacked — layer the expirations
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.
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.