Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 5:04 PM ET

IYE max pain

Spot (delayed)$65.76
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 5:04 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 20Not showntoo thin to read
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.57
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 5:04 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-20 expiration = 2.57 USD, 3.9% of 65.76 spot.
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±3.9% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.08
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 5:04 PM ET
How3 put contracts / 36 call contracts = 0.08 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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3 puts / 36 calls
IV3029.5%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 5:04 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol

Too thin to read: 39 open contracts across 11 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, Jan 15one strike decides66d
Fri, Apr 16one strike decides157d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Too thin to read: 39 open contracts across 11 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot64677072748088
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)IYE 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

spot64677074778095%26%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 29.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Fri, Nov 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.68-0.07640.10100.04-0.07-0.33
0.46-0.07660.11280.04-0.07-0.54
0.36-0.07670.10010.04-0.07-0.64
0.29-0.07680.08390.04-0.07-0.71
0.19-0.07700.05730.03-0.06-0.81
0.16-0.06710.04780.03-0.06-0.83
0.14-0.06720.04030.02-0.06-0.86
0.12-0.06730.03440.02-0.06-0.88
0.11-0.06740.02970.02-0.05-0.89

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 9 strikes around the money — all 11 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot45576368733680
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

spot455765738189368368
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 716 call contracts, 344 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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