Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 6:21 PM ET

OSCR max pain

Spot (delayed)$33.28
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:21 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 20Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.48
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:21 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-20 expiration = 2.48 USD, 7.4% of 33.28 spot.
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±7.4% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI1.22
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:21 PM ET
How32,109 put contracts / 26,397 call contracts = 1.22 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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32K puts / 26K calls
Call wall$30
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:21 PM ET
How30.00 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$30
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:21 PM ET
How30.00 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
IV3058.3%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:21 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$81K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:21 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

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 6% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 13$31-6.8%2d
Fri, Nov 20one strike decides9d
Fri, Nov 27$32-3.8%16d
Fri, Dec 4one strike decides23d
Fri, Dec 11$31-6.8%30d
Fri, Dec 18$30-9.9%37d
Fri, Jan 15$15-54.9%65d
Fri, Feb 19$31-6.8%100d
Fri, Mar 19one strike decides128d
Fri, Apr 16$34+2.2%156d
Fri, May 21$20-39.9%191d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 6% 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

spot3142430354213K13K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)OSCR 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

spot2026.529.532.535.5392K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot192531384450192%44%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 56.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot12212832.53745+$739K−$739K
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
0.85-0.04300.06280.01-0.04-0.15
0.81-0.0530.50.07250.01-0.05-0.19
0.77-0.06310.08230.02-0.06-0.23
0.73-0.0631.50.09170.02-0.06-0.27
0.68-0.06320.10020.02-0.06-0.32
0.63-0.0732.50.10720.02-0.07-0.37
0.57-0.07330.11220.02-0.07-0.43
0.52-0.0733.50.11470.02-0.07-0.48
0.46-0.07340.11470.02-0.07-0.54
0.40-0.0734.50.11220.02-0.07-0.59
0.35-0.07350.10750.02-0.06-0.65
0.30-0.0635.50.10090.02-0.06-0.70
0.26-0.06360.09300.02-0.06-0.74
0.22-0.0536.50.08440.02-0.05-0.78
0.18-0.04370.07540.01-0.04-0.82

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 57 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot3172530.53641.54K0
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

spot31624.530.536.542.570K70K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 285K call contracts, 142K 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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