HowThe settle strike with the smallest total payout to option holders for the 2026-11-20 expiration, over 66 strikes carrying 231,588 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 3, 6:06 AM ET
How147,987 put contracts / 83,601 call contracts = 1.77 for the 2026-11-20 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 3, 6:06 AM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2026-11-20 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 — 103 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)IGV open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20. Showing the 35 largest of 66 strikes by open interest, 98.2% of the total.
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
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 37.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20
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 20
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.87
-0.06
92
0.0213
0.05
-0.06
-0.13
0.83
-0.07
94
0.0268
0.06
-0.07
-0.18
0.80
-0.07
95
0.0298
0.06
-0.07
-0.20
0.77
-0.08
96
0.0329
0.07
-0.08
-0.23
0.74
-0.08
97
0.0360
0.07
-0.08
-0.27
0.70
-0.09
98
0.0389
0.08
-0.09
-0.30
0.62
-0.09
100
0.0439
0.09
-0.09
-0.39
0.57
-0.09
101
0.0456
0.09
-0.10
-0.43
0.53
-0.09
102
0.0467
0.09
-0.10
-0.48
0.50
-0.09
102.5
0.0469
0.09
-0.10
-0.50
0.48
-0.09
103
0.0470
0.09
-0.10
-0.53
0.43
-0.09
104
0.0466
0.09
-0.09
-0.57
0.39
-0.09
105
0.0454
0.09
-0.09
-0.62
0.35
-0.09
106
0.0437
0.08
-0.09
-0.66
0.31
-0.08
107
0.0414
0.08
-0.08
-0.70
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 35 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.