Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 7:44 PM ET

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Spot (delayed)$65.83
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:44 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Jan 15Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$5.2
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:44 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2027-01-15 expiration = 5.20 USD, 7.9% of 65.83 spot.
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±7.9% by Fri, Jan 15
Put/Call OI2.69
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:44 PM ET
How2,269 put contracts / 843 call contracts = 2.69 for the 2027-01-15 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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2K puts / 843 calls
Call wall$49
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:44 PM ET
How49.00 for the 2027-01-15 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$63
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:44 PM ET
How63.00 for the 2027-01-15 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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largest put OI
IV3022.7%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:44 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$390K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:44 PM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2027-01-15 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 ≈ $60

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 21.3% 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, 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$66+0.3%10d
Fri, Dec 18$63-4.3%38d
Fri, Jan 15one strike decides66d
Fri, Mar 19$63-4.3%129d
Thu, Jun 17one strike decides219d
Fri, Dec 17one strike decides402d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 21.3% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot3547546067762K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)KIE open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 15.

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, Jan 15

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot43505764717885%22%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 23.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spotflip 60354754606776+$385K−$385K
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, Jan 15

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.83-0.02580.02740.07-0.02-0.17
0.81-0.02590.03120.07-0.02-0.19
0.79-0.02600.03560.08-0.02-0.21
0.76-0.02610.04060.09-0.02-0.24
0.68-0.02630.05190.10-0.02-0.32
0.63-0.02640.05760.10-0.02-0.37
0.57-0.02650.06230.11-0.02-0.43
0.51-0.02660.06510.11-0.02-0.49
0.44-0.02670.06510.11-0.02-0.56
0.38-0.02680.06250.11-0.02-0.62
0.33-0.02690.05800.10-0.02-0.68
0.28-0.02700.05260.09-0.02-0.72
0.21-0.01720.04190.08-0.01-0.79
0.14-0.01750.02950.06-0.01-0.86
0.13-0.01760.02640.06-0.01-0.87

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 33 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot3548556167776030
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

spot3043526170795K5K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 7K call contracts, 16K 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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