Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 9, 7:09 PM ET

RSPG max pain

Spot (delayed)$106.82
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:09 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 20Not showntoo thin to read
Put/Call OI0.13
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:09 PM ET
How2 put contracts / 16 call contracts = 0.13 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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2 puts / 16 calls
IV3029.1%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 7:09 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol

Too thin to read: 18 open contracts across 8 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 20too thin10d
Fri, Dec 18too thin38d
Fri, Mar 19too thin129d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Too thin to read: 18 open contracts across 8 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot11011712012355
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)RSPG 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

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot11011311611812112463%29%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 33.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Fri, Nov 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.32-0.101100.05800.07-0.10-0.68
0.28-0.101110.05210.06-0.10-0.73
0.13-0.071170.02550.04-0.07-0.88
0.10-0.071190.02040.03-0.07-0.90
0.09-0.061200.01830.03-0.06-0.91
0.08-0.061210.01650.03-0.06-0.92
0.07-0.061230.01350.03-0.06-0.94
0.06-0.051240.01230.02-0.05-0.94

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot9511311712012380
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

spot559310211112013588
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 28 call contracts, 5 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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