Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 3, 6:06 AM ET

KOPN max pain

Spot (delayed)$3.5
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:06 AM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 27Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.99
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:06 AM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-27 expiration = 0.99 USD, 28.4% of 3.50 spot.
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±28.4% by Fri, Nov 27
Put/Call OI0.03
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:06 AM ET
How41 put contracts / 1,464 call contracts = 0.03 for the 2026-11-27 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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41 puts / 1K calls
Call wall$0.5
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:06 AM ET
How0.50 for the 2026-11-27 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$2.5
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:06 AM ET
How2.50 for the 2026-11-27 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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largest put OI
IV30106.5%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:06 AM 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, 6:06 AM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2026-11-27 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 14.3% 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, 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 6$0.5-85.7%3d
Fri, Nov 13one strike decides10d
Fri, Nov 20$3.5+0.0%17d
Fri, Nov 27one strike decides24d
Fri, Dec 4too thin31d
Fri, Dec 11too thin38d
Fri, Dec 18$3-14.3%45d
Fri, Jan 15$3.5+0.0%73d
Fri, Mar 19one strike decides136d
Fri, Apr 16$3.5+0.0%164d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 14.3% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot0.51.52.53.54.5932932
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)KOPN open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 27.

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 27

spot0.511.52.545858
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot112345592%93%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 149.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot0.51.534+$563−$563
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 27

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.99-0.000.50.00850.00-0.00-0.01
0.97-0.0010.02320.00-0.00-0.03
0.95-0.001.50.04870.00-0.01-0.05
0.91-0.0120.09440.00-0.01-0.09
0.85-0.012.50.17860.00-0.01-0.15
0.73-0.0130.32340.00-0.01-0.27
0.53-0.013.50.44550.00-0.01-0.47
0.35-0.0140.38920.00-0.01-0.66
0.24-0.014.50.29400.00-0.01-0.76

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot0.523.5573K0
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

spot0.52.54.56.58.51216K16K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 79K call contracts, 21K 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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