Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 6:53 PM ET

SCO max pain

Spot (delayed)$20.21
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:53 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 27Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.38
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:53 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-27 expiration = 2.38 USD, 11.7% of 20.21 spot.
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±11.7% by Fri, Nov 27
Put/Call OI1.06
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:53 PM ET
How1,246 put contracts / 1,176 call contracts = 1.06 for the 2026-11-27 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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1K puts / 1K calls
Call wall$18
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:53 PM ET
How18.00 for the 2026-11-27 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$20
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:53 PM ET
How20.00 for the 2026-11-27 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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largest put OI
IV3072.2%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:53 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$2K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:53 PM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2026-11-27 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 ≈ $18

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 9.9% 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 13$17.5-13.4%3d
Fri, Nov 20$18-10.9%10d
Fri, Nov 27one strike decides17d
Fri, Dec 4$17.5-13.4%24d
Fri, Dec 11$17.5-13.4%31d
Fri, Dec 18$18-10.9%38d
Fri, Jan 15$20-1.1%66d
Fri, Apr 16$15-25.8%157d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 9.9% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot11.51618202224636636
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SCO open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 27.

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 27

spot15.51819.52122.54848
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spot121417202225174%51%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 68.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 27

spotflip 1811.51618202224+$28K−$28K
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 27

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.89-0.0216.50.05210.01-0.02-0.11
0.86-0.02170.06340.01-0.02-0.14
0.83-0.0217.50.07610.01-0.03-0.17
0.79-0.03180.08980.01-0.03-0.21
0.74-0.0318.50.10370.01-0.03-0.26
0.69-0.03190.11670.01-0.03-0.32
0.63-0.0319.50.12740.02-0.03-0.38
0.56-0.03200.13450.02-0.04-0.44
0.49-0.0420.50.13700.02-0.04-0.51
0.42-0.03210.13490.02-0.03-0.58
0.36-0.0321.50.12870.02-0.03-0.64
0.31-0.03220.11960.01-0.03-0.70
0.26-0.0322.50.10860.01-0.03-0.75
0.21-0.03230.09710.01-0.03-0.79
0.18-0.0223.50.08570.01-0.02-0.82

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 22 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot1013161922263K0
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

spot513182328348K8K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 49K call contracts, 24K 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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