HowThe settle strike with the smallest total payout to option holders for the 2026-11-20 expiration, over 57 strikes carrying 15,827 open contracts. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:03 PM ET
How8,351 put contracts / 7,476 call contracts = 1.12 for the 2026-11-20 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:03 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.
■ put-side pain■ call-side painTotal payout option writers would owe at each settle price (both sides, all open interest, ×100 shares) — low settles hurt put writers, high settles hurt call writers. The minimum — 132 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)RH 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
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 66.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20
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 Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.72
-0.26
127
0.0216
0.07
-0.27
-0.28
0.70
-0.27
128
0.0225
0.08
-0.27
-0.30
0.67
-0.28
129
0.0234
0.08
-0.28
-0.33
0.65
-0.29
130
0.0241
0.08
-0.29
-0.35
0.62
-0.29
131
0.0248
0.09
-0.29
-0.38
0.60
-0.30
132
0.0253
0.09
-0.30
-0.40
0.55
-0.30
134
0.0261
0.09
-0.31
-0.45
0.52
-0.31
135
0.0262
0.09
-0.31
-0.48
0.39
-0.30
140
0.0252
0.09
-0.30
-0.61
0.28
-0.26
145
0.0219
0.08
-0.26
-0.72
0.20
-0.22
150
0.0176
0.06
-0.22
-0.80
0.14
-0.18
155
0.0136
0.05
-0.18
-0.86
0.12
-0.16
157.5
0.0118
0.04
-0.16
-0.88
0.10
-0.14
160
0.0103
0.04
-0.14
-0.90
0.07
-0.12
165
0.0077
0.03
-0.11
-0.93
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
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.
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.