Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 2, 11:00 PM ET

MLTX max pain

Spot (delayed)$11.46
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 2, 11:00 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 20Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.23
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 2, 11:00 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-20 expiration = 2.23 USD, 19.4% of 11.46 spot.
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±19.4% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.44
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 2, 11:00 PM ET
How4,682 put contracts / 10,536 call contracts = 0.44 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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5K puts / 11K calls
Call wall$24
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 2, 11:00 PM ET
How24.00 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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largest call OI
Put wall$12
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 2, 11:00 PM ET
How12.00 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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largest put OI
IV30127.7%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 2, 11:00 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$18K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 2, 11:00 PM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2026-11-20 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 ≈ $10

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 8.7% 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 20one strike decides17d
Fri, Dec 18$11-4.0%45d
Fri, Jan 15$11-4.0%73d
Fri, Feb 19$14+22.2%108d
Fri, May 21one strike decides199d
Fri, Jan 21one strike decides444d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 8.7% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot310152025302K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)MLTX 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

spot1112141919
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot3916222935405%92%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 110.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 1071115192330+$22K−$22K
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 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
1.00not quoted3not quotednot quotednot quotednot quoted
1.00not quoted50.00170.000.00-0.00
0.97-0.0170.02210.00-0.01-0.03
0.92-0.0180.04570.00-0.01-0.08
0.84-0.0290.07470.01-0.02-0.16
0.74-0.03100.10170.01-0.03-0.27
0.61-0.03110.12020.01-0.03-0.39
0.49-0.04120.12670.01-0.04-0.51
0.38-0.03130.12150.01-0.03-0.63
0.28-0.03140.10780.01-0.03-0.73
0.19-0.02150.08950.01-0.02-0.81
0.13-0.02160.07020.01-0.02-0.87
0.09-0.01170.05250.00-0.01-0.92
0.06-0.01180.03760.00-0.01-0.95

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 14 strikes around the money — all 30 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot2.51217.52330504K0
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

spot2.591622.530504K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 34K call contracts, 6K 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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