Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 9, 7:28 PM ET

RIG max pain

Spot (delayed)$5.19
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:28 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 13Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.31
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:28 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-13 expiration = 0.31 USD, 6.0% of 5.19 spot.
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±6.0% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI1.01
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:28 PM ET
How8,418 put contracts / 8,325 call contracts = 1.01 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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8K puts / 8K calls
Call wall$6
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:28 PM ET
How6.00 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$5.5
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:28 PM ET
How5.50 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
IV3048.5%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:28 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 9, 7:28 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 ≈ $4

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 9.6% 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 13one strike decides3d
Fri, Nov 20$6+15.6%10d
Fri, Nov 27$5.5+6.0%17d
Fri, Dec 4$6+15.6%24d
Fri, Dec 11$5.5+6.0%31d
Fri, Dec 18one strike decides38d
Fri, Jan 15one strike decides66d
Fri, Feb 19one strike decides101d
Fri, Mar 19one strike decides129d
Fri, May 21$6+15.6%192d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 9.6% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot135793K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)RIG 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

spot14.567.59.51K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot345679241%41%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 63.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 413.556.58+$50K−$50K
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
1.000.001.50.0018not quoted-0.00-0.00
1.000.0020.0033not quoted-0.00-0.00
1.00-0.002.50.0062not quoted-0.00-0.00
1.00-0.0030.01240.00-0.00-0.01
0.99-0.003.50.02730.00-0.00-0.01
0.98-0.0040.07030.00-0.00-0.02
0.95-0.014.50.23550.00-0.01-0.06
0.74-0.0151.06610.00-0.01-0.27
0.21-0.015.50.79100.00-0.01-0.80
0.07-0.0160.26760.00-0.01-0.94
0.03-0.006.50.11330.00-0.00-0.97
0.02-0.0070.05620.00-0.00-0.99
0.01-0.007.50.03100.00-0.00-0.99
0.01-0.0080.01840.00-0.00-1.00
0.00-0.008.50.01150.00-0.00-1.00

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 19 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot135791217K0
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

spot0.52.54.56.58.511267K267K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 918K call contracts, 506K 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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