Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 9, 7:13 PM ET

ICVT max pain

Spot (delayed)$103.54
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:13 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 20Not showntoo thin to read
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$13.15
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:13 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-20 expiration = 13.15 USD, 12.7% of 103.54 spot.
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±12.7% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI2.00
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:13 PM ET
How36 put contracts / 18 call contracts = 2.00 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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36 puts / 18 calls
IV3022.1%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:13 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol

Too thin to read: 54 open contracts across 13 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 19too thin101d
Fri, May 21too thin192d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Too thin to read: 54 open contracts across 13 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot961051101151201111
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ICVT 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

spot96101106110115120105%21%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 36.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Fri, Nov 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.88-0.06960.02840.04-0.06-0.12
0.78-0.071000.05770.05-0.07-0.23
0.48-0.071040.09800.07-0.08-0.53
0.39-0.071050.09200.07-0.07-0.62
0.26-0.071070.06810.06-0.07-0.75
0.18-0.071090.04830.05-0.07-0.83
0.16-0.061100.04120.04-0.07-0.85
0.11-0.061130.02680.03-0.06-0.90
0.10-0.061140.02370.03-0.06-0.91
0.09-0.061150.02100.03-0.06-0.92

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 10 strikes around the money — all 13 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot104112115119130130
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

spot65991091191291601313
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 58 call contracts, 42 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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