Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 9, 7:37 PM ET

PBR max pain

Spot (delayed)$18.45
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:37 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 13Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.96
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:37 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-13 expiration = 0.96 USD, 5.2% of 18.45 spot.
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±5.2% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.58
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:37 PM ET
How9,226 put contracts / 15,940 call contracts = 0.58 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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9K puts / 16K calls
Call wall$21
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:37 PM ET
How21.00 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$19.5
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:37 PM ET
How19.50 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
IV3041.5%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:37 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$98K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:37 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 ≈ $16

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 5.4% 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 13one strike decides3d
Fri, Nov 20$21+13.8%10d
Fri, Nov 27$22.5+22.0%17d
Fri, Dec 4$21+13.8%24d
Fri, Dec 11$20+8.4%31d
Fri, Dec 18$20+8.4%38d
Fri, Jan 15one strike decides66d
Fri, Feb 19one strike decides101d
Fri, Mar 19$22+19.2%129d
Fri, Apr 16$21+13.8%157d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 5.4% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot1217202326316K6K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)PBR 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

spot1216.51921.52430.5511511
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot121621253034248%60%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 62.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 16121720232632+$126K−$126K
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
0.99-0.01140.01350.00-0.01-0.01
0.97-0.0115.50.04020.00-0.01-0.03
0.95-0.01160.06190.00-0.02-0.05
0.93-0.0216.50.09900.00-0.02-0.07
0.88-0.03170.16000.00-0.03-0.12
0.78-0.0417.50.24380.01-0.04-0.22
0.64-0.06180.31380.01-0.06-0.36
0.47-0.0618.50.33660.01-0.06-0.53
0.32-0.05190.30150.01-0.06-0.69
0.19-0.0419.50.22840.01-0.04-0.82
0.10-0.03200.15040.00-0.03-0.90
0.06-0.0120.50.09280.00-0.01-0.95
0.04-0.01210.05780.00-0.01-0.97
0.02-0.0121.50.03740.00-0.01-0.98
0.01-0.01220.02520.00-0.01-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 33 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot41519.523.527.53498K0
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

spot31217.52226.531204K204K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1.2M call contracts, 1.0M 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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