Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 7:58 PM ET

IEO max pain

Spot (delayed)$131.86
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:58 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Thu, Jun 17Not showntoo thin to read
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$24.9
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:58 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2027-06-17 expiration = 24.90 USD, 18.9% of 131.86 spot.
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±18.9% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI3.38
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:58 PM ET
How27 put contracts / 8 call contracts = 3.38 for the 2027-06-17 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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27 puts / 8 calls
IV3031.3%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:58 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol

Too thin to read: 35 open contracts across 8 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

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 20too thin10d
Fri, Dec 18$115-12.8%38d
Fri, Mar 19too thin129d
Thu, Jun 17too thin219d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Too thin to read: 35 open contracts across 8 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot1001251451601313
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)IEO open contracts per strike for Thu, Jun 17.

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 · Thu, Jun 17

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot10011312613915216535%29%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 31.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.89-0.011000.00550.19-0.01-0.11
0.85-0.011050.00680.23-0.02-0.14
0.64-0.021250.01170.37-0.03-0.36
0.58-0.031300.01240.39-0.03-0.42
0.40-0.031450.01250.39-0.03-0.61
0.34-0.021500.01200.37-0.02-0.67
0.25-0.021600.01040.32-0.02-0.77
0.21-0.021650.00940.29-0.02-0.82

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

spot90110118130146160480
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

spot701091221371501754848
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 331 call contracts, 133 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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