Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 4:24 PM ET

MTUM max pain

Spot (delayed)$66.73
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 4:24 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$70.63
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceMax pain from Cboe open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 4:24 PM ET
HowThe settle strike with the smallest total payout to option holders for the 2026-11-13 expiration, over 31 strikes carrying 7,911 open contracts. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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+5.8% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.92
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 4:24 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-13 expiration = 1.92 USD, 2.9% of 66.73 spot.
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±2.9% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI1.05
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 4:24 PM ET
How4,056 put contracts / 3,855 call contracts = 1.05 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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4K puts / 4K calls
Call wall$98.75
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 4:24 PM ET
How98.75 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$67.5
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 4:24 PM ET
How67.50 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
IV3032.1%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 4:24 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$266K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 4:24 PM 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 · flip ≈ $66.25

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 13$70.63+5.8%3d
Fri, Nov 20$70+4.9%10d
Fri, Nov 27one strike decides17d
Fri, Dec 4$70.63+5.8%24d
Fri, Dec 11$61.25-8.2%31d
Fri, Dec 18$70+4.9%38d
Fri, Jan 15one strike decides66d
Fri, Feb 19one strike decides101d
Fri, May 21$68.75+3.0%192d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot70.635564748392101$7M$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 — 70.63 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot70.635565.637073.7580101.251K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)MTUM 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

spot70.6357.561.2562.566.2567.5122122
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot556065697479155%26%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 39.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 66.25556568.7571.8876.2580.63+$325K−$325K
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
1.000.00550.00110.00-0.00-0.00
0.99-0.0158.750.00600.00-0.01-0.01
0.96-0.03620.03030.01-0.03-0.04
0.95-0.0462.50.03900.01-0.04-0.05
0.85-0.0964.380.09680.01-0.09-0.15
0.79-0.11650.12530.02-0.11-0.21
0.71-0.1365.630.15540.02-0.13-0.29
0.61-0.1566.250.17990.02-0.15-0.39
0.37-0.1467.50.18330.02-0.14-0.63
0.27-0.1268.130.15860.02-0.12-0.73
0.18-0.0968.750.12640.02-0.09-0.82
0.12-0.0769.380.09430.01-0.07-0.88
0.08-0.05700.06810.01-0.05-0.92
0.06-0.0370.630.04790.01-0.03-0.95
0.04-0.0271.250.03360.01-0.02-0.97

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 31 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot57.568.1373.1378.1383.7598.7512K0
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

spot4056.256571.888088.7532K32K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 125K call contracts, 148K 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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