Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 7:38 PM ET

SLB max pain

Spot (delayed)$49.9
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:38 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 20Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.56
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:38 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-20 expiration = 2.56 USD, 5.1% of 49.90 spot.
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±5.1% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.51
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:38 PM ET
How22,257 put contracts / 43,979 call contracts = 0.51 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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22K puts / 44K calls
Call wall$55
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:38 PM ET
How55.00 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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largest call OI
Put wall$45
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:38 PM ET
How45.00 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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largest put OI
IV3035.0%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:38 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$1.8M
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 7:38 PM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2026-11-20 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 ≈ $50

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 5% 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$51+2.2%3d
Fri, Nov 20one strike decides10d
Fri, Nov 27$52+4.2%17d
Fri, Dec 4$53+6.2%24d
Fri, Dec 11$51+2.2%31d
Fri, Dec 18one strike decides38d
Fri, Jan 15$47.5-4.8%66d
Fri, Feb 19one strike decides101d
Fri, Mar 19$52.5+5.2%129d
Fri, May 21one strike decides192d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

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

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot27.543475258758K8K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SLB 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

spot37.54547.5505357461461
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot304152637485139%32%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 38.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 50304346.5505662.5+$1.4M−$1.4M
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 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.85-0.0446.50.06510.02-0.04-0.15
0.82-0.04470.07600.02-0.04-0.18
0.78-0.0547.50.08730.02-0.05-0.22
0.74-0.05480.09870.03-0.05-0.26
0.69-0.0648.50.10930.03-0.06-0.31
0.63-0.06490.11830.03-0.06-0.37
0.57-0.0649.50.12490.03-0.06-0.43
0.51-0.06500.12840.03-0.06-0.49
0.38-0.06510.12450.03-0.06-0.62
0.27-0.05520.10780.03-0.05-0.74
0.22-0.0452.50.09650.03-0.04-0.79
0.18-0.04530.08450.02-0.04-0.83
0.11-0.03540.06130.02-0.03-0.89
0.07-0.02550.04200.01-0.02-0.94
0.04-0.01560.02790.01-0.01-0.97

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 43 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot3042.546.55157.5659K0
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

spot17.53844.5495663122K122K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 367K call contracts, 205K 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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