Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 9, 9:30 PM ET

ROKT max pain

Spot (delayed)$101.88
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 9:30 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Jan 15Not showntoo thin to read
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$10.15
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 9:30 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2027-01-15 expiration = 10.15 USD, 10.0% of 101.88 spot.
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±10.0% by Fri, Jan 15
Put/Call OI0.27
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 9:30 PM ET
How13 put contracts / 48 call contracts = 0.27 for the 2027-01-15 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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13 puts / 48 calls
IV3029.0%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 9:30 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol

Too thin to read: 61 open contracts across 15 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 20too thin10d
Fri, Jan 15too thin66d
Fri, Apr 16too thin157d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Too thin to read: 61 open contracts across 15 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot1021151231311651515
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)ROKT open contracts per strike for Fri, Jan 15.

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, Jan 15

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Jan 15

spot10211813314916418092%26%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 29.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Fri, Jan 15

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.52-0.041020.03050.17-0.04-0.47
0.31-0.041100.02540.15-0.04-0.68
0.28-0.041120.02320.15-0.04-0.72
0.23-0.041150.02000.13-0.03-0.76
0.20-0.031180.01730.12-0.03-0.80
0.18-0.031200.01570.12-0.03-0.81
0.16-0.031230.01380.11-0.03-0.83
0.15-0.031250.01260.10-0.03-0.85

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 8 strikes around the money — all 15 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot102115125135170180
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

spot891001111221331651818
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 53 call contracts, 17 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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