Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 9:51 AM ET

PGY max pain

Spot (delayed)$17.39
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:51 AM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 20Not shownone strike decides it
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, 9:51 AM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-20 expiration = 1.92 USD, 11.1% of 17.39 spot.
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±11.1% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.51
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:51 AM ET
How14,809 put contracts / 29,029 call contracts = 0.51 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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15K puts / 29K calls
Call wall$18
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:51 AM ET
How18.00 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$15
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:51 AM ET
How15.00 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
IV3072.2%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:51 AM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$180K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:51 AM 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 · flip ≈ $6

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 5.8% 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 20one strike decides10d
Fri, Dec 18one strike decides38d
Fri, Jan 15$18+3.5%66d
Fri, Feb 19$18+3.5%101d
Fri, May 21$19+9.3%192d
Thu, Jun 17one strike decides219d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 5.8% 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

spot39152127336K6K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)PGY 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

spot1314171920212121
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot101520263136327%46%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 82.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 661116212631+$234K−$234K
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
0.99-0.00100.00490.00-0.00-0.01
0.99-0.00110.00870.00-0.01-0.01
0.98-0.01120.01580.00-0.01-0.02
0.96-0.01130.02920.00-0.01-0.04
0.92-0.02140.05260.00-0.02-0.08
0.85-0.03150.08750.01-0.03-0.15
0.74-0.04160.12730.01-0.04-0.26
0.59-0.05170.15510.01-0.05-0.41
0.43-0.05180.15780.01-0.05-0.57
0.29-0.04190.13740.01-0.04-0.71
0.19-0.03200.10610.01-0.03-0.81
0.11-0.02210.07510.01-0.02-0.89
0.07-0.02220.05000.00-0.01-0.93
0.04-0.01230.03200.00-0.01-0.96
0.02-0.01240.01980.00-0.01-0.98

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 34 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot310172431406K0
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

spot191725334717K17K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 98K call contracts, 35K 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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