HowThe settle strike with the smallest total payout to option holders for the 2026-11-06 expiration, over 48 strikes carrying 17,228 open contracts. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 6, 4:30 PM ET
How10,297 put contracts / 6,931 call contracts = 1.49 for the 2026-11-06 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 6, 4:30 PM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2026-11-06 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.
■ 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 — 93 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 6
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)NRG open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 6.
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 6
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 6
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 307.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 6
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 6
Call Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
1.00
not quoted
81
not quoted
not quoted
not quoted
not quoted
1.00
not quoted
82
not quoted
not quoted
not quoted
not quoted
1.00
not quoted
83
not quoted
not quoted
not quoted
not quoted
1.00
not quoted
84
not quoted
not quoted
not quoted
not quoted
1.00
not quoted
85
not quoted
not quoted
not quoted
not quoted
1.00
not quoted
86
0.0003
not quoted
not quoted
not quoted
0.99
-0.00
87
0.0611
0.00
-0.00
-0.01
0.67
-0.12
88
0.6420
0.00
-0.12
-0.33
0.09
-0.02
89
0.2914
0.00
-0.02
-0.91
0.00
0.00
90
0.0059
not quoted
0.00
-1.00
not quoted
not quoted
91
not quoted
not quoted
not quoted
-1.00
not quoted
not quoted
92
not quoted
not quoted
not quoted
-1.00
not quoted
not quoted
93
not quoted
not quoted
not quoted
-1.00
not quoted
not quoted
94
not quoted
not quoted
not quoted
-1.00
not quoted
not quoted
95
not quoted
not quoted
not quoted
-1.00
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 48 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.
Stacked — layer the expirations
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.
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.