Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 11:16 AM ET

KRE max pain

Spot (delayed)$72.47
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 11:16 AM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$74
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceMax pain from Cboe open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 11:16 AM ET
HowThe settle strike with the smallest total payout to option holders for the 2026-11-13 expiration, over 40 strikes carrying 73,458 open contracts. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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+2.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.56
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 11:16 AM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-13 expiration = 1.56 USD, 2.1% of 72.47 spot.
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±2.1% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI5.98
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 11:16 AM ET
How62,933 put contracts / 10,525 call contracts = 5.98 for the 2026-11-13 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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63K puts / 11K calls
Call wall$76
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 11:16 AM ET
How76.00 for the 2026-11-13 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$70.5
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 11:16 AM ET
How70.50 for the 2026-11-13 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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largest put OI
IV3023.5%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 11:16 AM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$22.2M
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 11:16 AM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2026-11-13 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 levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 13$74+2.1%3d
Fri, Nov 20$72-0.6%10d
Fri, Nov 27$72-0.6%17d
Fri, Dec 4$73.5+1.4%24d
Fri, Dec 11$75+3.5%31d
Fri, Dec 18$72-0.6%38d
Thu, Dec 31$75+3.5%51d
Fri, Jan 15$75+3.5%66d
Fri, Mar 19$74+2.1%129d
Wed, Mar 31$70-3.4%141d
Fri, May 21$70-3.4%192d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot74505663697682$118M$0
■ put-side pain■ call-side painTotal payout option writers would owe at each settle price (both sides, all open interest, ×100 shares) — low settles hurt put writers, high settles hurt call writers. The minimum — 74 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot745063.56770.5747819K19K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)KRE open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 13.

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 13

spot7461637172.57476608608
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot616569747882109%24%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 28.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot5063.56770.57478+$11.7M−$11.7M
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 13

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.91-0.06690.05830.01-0.06-0.09
0.89-0.0769.50.07300.01-0.07-0.11
0.86-0.08700.09110.01-0.08-0.14
0.82-0.1070.50.11320.02-0.10-0.18
0.77-0.11710.13870.02-0.11-0.24
0.70-0.1271.50.16610.02-0.12-0.31
0.62-0.13720.19120.03-0.13-0.39
0.52-0.1372.50.20750.03-0.13-0.49
0.41-0.12730.20820.03-0.13-0.60
0.31-0.1173.50.19120.02-0.11-0.70
0.23-0.09740.16180.02-0.09-0.79
0.16-0.0774.50.12850.02-0.07-0.86
0.11-0.05750.09820.01-0.05-0.91
0.08-0.0475.50.07340.01-0.04-0.94
0.06-0.03760.05450.01-0.03-0.96

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 40 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot506367.57276.58536K0
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

spot354856647178229K229K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 582K call contracts, 1.8M 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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