Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 3, 9:44 AM ET

MPT max pain

Spot (delayed)$2.17
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 9:44 AM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 27Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.34
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 9:44 AM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-27 expiration = 0.34 USD, 15.7% of 2.17 spot.
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±15.7% by Fri, Nov 27
Put/Call OI0.87
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 9:44 AM ET
How1,469 put contracts / 1,684 call contracts = 0.87 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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1K puts / 2K calls
Call wall$3
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 9:44 AM ET
How3.00 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, 9:44 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
IV3075.2%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 9:44 AM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 23% 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 6one strike decides3d
Fri, Nov 13$3+38.2%10d
Fri, Nov 20one strike decides17d
Fri, Nov 27one strike decides24d
Fri, Dec 4one strike decides31d
Fri, Dec 11$2.5+15.2%38d
Fri, Dec 18one strike decides45d
Fri, Jan 15one strike decides73d
Fri, Mar 19one strike decides136d
Fri, Apr 16$4+84.3%164d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 23% 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

spot0.51.52.53.54.5896896
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)MPT 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

Greeks by strike · Fri, Nov 27

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
not quotednot quoted0.5not quotednot quotednot quotednot quoted
not quotednot quoted1not quotednot quotednot quotednot quoted
not quotednot quoted1.5not quotednot quotednot quotednot quoted
not quotednot quoted2not quotednot quotednot quotednot quoted
not quotednot quoted2.5not quotednot quotednot quotednot quoted
not quotednot quoted3not quotednot quotednot quotednot quoted
not quotednot quoted3.5not quotednot quotednot quotednot quoted
not quotednot quoted4not quotednot quotednot quotednot quoted
not quotednot quoted4.5not quotednot quotednot quotednot quoted
not quotednot quoted6not quotednot quotednot quotednot quoted

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

spot0.51.52.53.54.57.53K0
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

spot0.523.556.510151K151K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 516K call contracts, 492K 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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