Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 8:38 PM ET

LNG max pain

Spot (delayed)$293.99
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:38 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Jan 15Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$31.95
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:38 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2027-01-15 expiration = 31.95 USD, 10.9% of 293.99 spot.
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±10.9% by Fri, Jan 15
Put/Call OI0.63
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:38 PM ET
How12,760 put contracts / 20,372 call contracts = 0.63 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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13K puts / 20K calls
Call wall$240
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:38 PM ET
How240.00 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$230
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:38 PM ET
How230.00 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
IV3032.8%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:38 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$8.4M
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 8:38 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 ≈ $240

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 6.8% 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 13$292.5-0.5%3d
Fri, Nov 20$285-3.1%10d
Fri, Nov 27$290-1.4%17d
Fri, Dec 4$300+2.0%24d
Fri, Dec 11$290-1.4%31d
Fri, Dec 18$290-1.4%38d
Fri, Jan 15one strike decides66d
Fri, Mar 19$260-11.6%129d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 6.8% 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

spot901301702203003804K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)LNG 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

spot145230260290320420103103
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot105172239306373440123%30%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 31.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spotflip 240160190240300360420+$2.1M−$2.1M
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
0.97-0.012200.00140.08-0.02-0.03
0.95-0.032300.00210.12-0.03-0.05
0.93-0.042400.00310.18-0.05-0.07
0.89-0.062500.00440.24-0.06-0.11
0.83-0.072600.00590.31-0.08-0.17
0.76-0.092700.00740.39-0.10-0.24
0.68-0.112800.00880.45-0.11-0.33
0.59-0.122900.00970.49-0.12-0.42
0.49-0.123000.01000.50-0.12-0.52
0.39-0.113100.00960.48-0.12-0.62
0.31-0.103200.00880.44-0.11-0.71
0.23-0.093300.00760.38-0.10-0.79
0.17-0.083400.00640.32-0.08-0.85
0.13-0.063500.00510.26-0.07-0.91
0.09-0.053600.00400.21-0.05-0.95

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 47 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1502752953153353702K0
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

spot1401852502903254007K7K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 55K call contracts, 32K 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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