Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 2, 6:13 PM ET

IMNM max pain

Spot (delayed)$19.73
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 2, 6:13 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 20Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$5.43
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 2, 6:13 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-20 expiration = 5.43 USD, 27.5% of 19.73 spot.
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±27.5% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI1.44
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 2, 6:13 PM ET
How910 put contracts / 633 call contracts = 1.44 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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910 puts / 633 calls
Call wall$17
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 2, 6:13 PM ET
How17.00 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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largest call OI
Put wall$16
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 2, 6:13 PM ET
How16.00 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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largest put OI
IV3074.7%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 2, 6:13 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 2, 6:13 PM 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.
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per 1% move · flip ≈ $20

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 15.2% 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 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 20one strike decides17d
Fri, Dec 18$20+1.4%45d
Fri, Jan 15$25+26.7%73d
Fri, Apr 16$27+36.8%164d
Fri, Jan 21$25+26.7%444d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 15.2% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot1317212529379379
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)IMNM 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

spot1618192021235050
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot131721242832368%74%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 97.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 201317212529+$7K−$7K
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 ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.95-0.01130.01840.00-0.01-0.05
0.94-0.01140.02640.01-0.02-0.06
0.91-0.02150.03790.01-0.02-0.09
0.87-0.02160.05410.01-0.02-0.13
0.81-0.03170.07550.01-0.03-0.19
0.72-0.03180.09920.01-0.03-0.28
0.61-0.04190.11680.02-0.04-0.39
0.49-0.04200.12030.02-0.04-0.51
0.39-0.04210.11110.02-0.04-0.62
0.30-0.04220.09630.01-0.04-0.70
0.24-0.03230.08120.01-0.03-0.77
0.19-0.03240.06790.01-0.03-0.81
0.16-0.03250.05680.01-0.03-0.85
0.13-0.03260.04780.01-0.03-0.88
0.11-0.02270.04050.01-0.02-0.90

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 20 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot314202530359140
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

spot313192531371K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 5K call contracts, 6K 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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