Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 9, 8:14 PM ET

SPCH max pain

Spot (delayed)$8.22
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:14 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 13Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:14 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-13 expiration = 1.00 USD, 12.2% of 8.22 spot.
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±12.2% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI1.05
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:14 PM ET
How5,578 put contracts / 5,337 call contracts = 1.05 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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6K puts / 5K calls
Call wall$8.5
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:14 PM ET
How8.50 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 call OI
Put wall$7
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:14 PM ET
How7.00 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 put OI
IV30110.1%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:14 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$14K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 8:14 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 ≈ $5

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 6.1% 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 20one strike decides10d
Fri, Nov 27$9+9.5%17d
Fri, Dec 4one strike decides24d
Fri, Dec 11$9+9.5%31d
Fri, Dec 18$8-2.7%38d
Fri, Mar 19$6-27.0%129d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 6.1% 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

spot35.5810.513161K1K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SPCH 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

spot56.589.511142K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot4710141720521%115%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 147.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 535.5810.51316+$12K−$12K
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
0.99-0.014.50.01150.00-0.01-0.01
0.99-0.0150.01950.00-0.01-0.01
0.98-0.015.50.03250.00-0.01-0.02
0.96-0.0160.05550.00-0.01-0.04
0.93-0.026.50.09640.00-0.02-0.07
0.87-0.0370.16530.00-0.03-0.13
0.77-0.047.50.26340.00-0.04-0.23
0.62-0.0580.35660.00-0.05-0.38
0.43-0.058.50.37640.00-0.05-0.57
0.27-0.0490.31160.00-0.04-0.73
0.16-0.039.50.22070.00-0.03-0.84
0.09-0.02100.14550.00-0.02-0.90
0.06-0.0110.50.09370.00-0.01-0.94
0.03-0.01110.06030.00-0.01-0.96
0.02-0.0111.50.03920.00-0.01-0.98

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 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

spot1691215203K0
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

spot161014182536K36K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 86K call contracts, 35K 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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