Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 9, 6:37 PM ET

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Spot (delayed)$13.27
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 6:37 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 13Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.95
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 6:37 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-13 expiration = 0.95 USD, 7.2% of 13.27 spot.
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±7.2% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.20
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 6:37 PM ET
How1,880 put contracts / 9,638 call contracts = 0.20 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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2K puts / 10K calls
Call wall$10
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 6:37 PM ET
How10.00 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$11.5
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 6:37 PM ET
How11.50 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
IV3069.9%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 6:37 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$234K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 6:37 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 ≈ $10

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 11.3% 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$7-47.2%10d
Fri, Nov 27$8-39.7%17d
Fri, Dec 4one strike decides24d
Fri, Dec 11too thin31d
Fri, Dec 18$10-24.6%38d
Fri, Jan 15one strike decides66d
Fri, Apr 16one strike decides157d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 11.3% 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

spot24.579.512153K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SG 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

spot24.579.51214.51K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot7911131517306%82%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 83.8% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 1089.51112.51416+$178K−$178K
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
1.00-0.00100.00520.00-0.00-0.00
0.99-0.0010.50.01710.00-0.00-0.01
0.98-0.01110.04040.00-0.01-0.02
0.95-0.0111.50.08200.00-0.01-0.05
0.90-0.03120.15520.00-0.03-0.11
0.79-0.0412.50.25100.00-0.04-0.21
0.64-0.06130.33130.01-0.06-0.36
0.47-0.0613.50.35300.01-0.06-0.53
0.30-0.05140.30890.01-0.05-0.69
0.10-0.02150.14900.00-0.02-0.90
0.05-0.0115.50.08760.00-0.01-0.95
0.02-0.01160.04760.00-0.01-0.97
0.01-0.00170.01200.00-0.00-0.99

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 strikes around the money — all 29 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot14.57.510.513.51715K0
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

spot1610.515224046K46K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 210K call contracts, 82K 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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