Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 9, 8:57 PM ET

ORBS max pain

Spot (delayed)$0.72
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:57 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 13Not showntoo thin to read
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.16
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:57 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-13 expiration = 0.16 USD, 22.4% of 0.72 spot.
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±22.4% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.14
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:57 PM ET
How394 put contracts / 2,760 call contracts = 0.14 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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394 puts / 3K calls
IV3090.9%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:57 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol

Too thin to read: 3,154 open contracts across 4 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 13too thin3d
Fri, Nov 20$1+39.8%10d
Fri, Nov 27one strike decides17d
Fri, Dec 4too thin24d
Fri, Dec 11too thin31d
Fri, Dec 18one strike decides38d
Fri, Jan 15$0.5-30.1%66d
Fri, Apr 16one strike decides157d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Too thin to read: 3,154 open contracts across 4 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot0.511.523K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ORBS 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

spot0.511.59595
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot111122802%260%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 476.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Fri, Nov 13

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.96-0.000.50.59450.00-0.00-0.04
0.07-0.0010.88760.00-0.00-0.93
0.01-0.001.50.1563not quoted-0.00-0.99
0.010.0020.0573not quoted0.00-1.00

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

spot0.511.5216K0
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

spot0.51.52.53.54.57.533K33K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 98K call contracts, 10K 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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