Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 3, 6:31 PM ET

ILF max pain

Spot (delayed)$31.55
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:31 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Thu, Jun 17Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$5.83
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:31 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2027-06-17 expiration = 5.83 USD, 18.5% of 31.55 spot.
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±18.5% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI0.45
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:31 PM ET
How50 put contracts / 110 call contracts = 0.45 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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50 puts / 110 calls
Call wall$25
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:31 PM ET
How25.00 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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largest call OI
Put wall$40
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:31 PM ET
How40.00 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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largest put OI
IV3027.1%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:31 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$1K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:31 PM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2027-06-17 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

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 47.5% 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, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · 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$34+7.8%16d
Fri, Dec 18$34+7.8%44d
Fri, Mar 19$35+10.9%135d
Thu, Jun 17one strike decides225d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 47.5% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot25303337405858
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ILF 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

spot25303439434846%24%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 29.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot2530333740+$2K−$2K
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 · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.84-0.00250.02670.06-0.01-0.17
0.75-0.00280.04150.08-0.01-0.26
0.71-0.01290.04750.08-0.01-0.30
0.66-0.01300.05320.09-0.01-0.35
0.60-0.01310.05780.09-0.01-0.41
0.55-0.01320.06020.10-0.01-0.47
0.49-0.01330.06030.10-0.01-0.53
0.43-0.01340.05830.10-0.01-0.59
0.35-0.01360.05140.09-0.01-0.68
0.32-0.01370.04750.09-0.01-0.72
0.29-0.01380.04390.08-0.01-0.75
0.27-0.01390.04050.08-0.01-0.77
0.24-0.01400.03750.08-0.01-0.79

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 strikes around the money — all 14 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot2531353943502K0
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

spot25303540452K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 9K call contracts, 4K 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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