Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 6:14 AM ET

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Spot (delayed)$30.95
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:14 AM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Thu, Jun 17Not showntoo thin to read
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$10.13
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:14 AM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2027-06-17 expiration = 10.13 USD, 32.7% of 30.95 spot.
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±32.7% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI77.00
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:14 AM ET
How77 put contracts / 1 call contracts = 77.00 for the 2027-06-17 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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77 puts / 1 calls
IV3048.0%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:14 AM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol

Too thin to read: 78 open contracts across 16 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 20$35+13.1%10d
Fri, Dec 18$38+22.8%38d
Fri, Jan 15$53+71.2%66d
Fri, Mar 19$40+29.2%129d
Thu, Jun 17too thin219d
Fri, Jan 21$53+71.2%437d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Too thin to read: 78 open contracts across 16 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot1530394346491111
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)PLTY open contracts per strike for Thu, Jun 17.

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 · Thu, Jun 17

spot414244474822
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot15222935424980%47%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 46.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
1.00-0.06150.00820.04-0.01-0.11
0.94-0.04250.05920.07-0.01-0.34
0.58-0.02290.07810.07-0.01-0.47
0.51-0.02300.06830.07-0.01-0.50
0.28-0.01350.03600.07-0.00-0.58
0.26-0.01360.03240.07-0.00-0.59
0.21-0.01390.02490.06-0.00-0.61
0.18-0.01410.02150.06-0.00-0.63
0.17-0.01420.02010.06-0.00-0.63
0.17-0.01430.01900.05-0.00-0.64
0.16-0.01440.01790.05-0.00-0.64

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 11 strikes around the money — all 16 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot2636435260691520
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

spot152637485970178178
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1K call contracts, 1K 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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