Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 3, 7:36 PM ET

SPXS max pain

Spot (delayed)$25.91
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 7:36 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 13Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.99
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 7:36 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-13 expiration = 1.99 USD, 7.7% of 25.91 spot.
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±7.7% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.68
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 7:36 PM ET
How4,492 put contracts / 6,644 call contracts = 0.68 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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4K puts / 7K calls
Call wall$27
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 7:36 PM ET
How27.00 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$25
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 7:36 PM ET
How25.00 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
IV3051.4%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 7:36 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$123K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 7:36 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 ≈ $22.5

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 7.7% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 6$25.5-1.6%2d
Fri, Nov 13one strike decides9d
Fri, Nov 20one strike decides16d
Fri, Nov 27$24-7.4%23d
Fri, Dec 4$22-15.1%30d
Fri, Dec 11$22-15.1%37d
Fri, Dec 18$24-7.4%44d
Fri, Jan 15$26+0.3%72d
Fri, Apr 16$25-3.5%163d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 7.7% 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

spot1921.52426.529322K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)SPXS 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

spot23.52526.528.534273273
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot192225293235174%47%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 57.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 22.51921.52426.52932+$144K−$144K
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
0.95-0.0122.50.04930.00-0.01-0.05
0.92-0.01230.07010.01-0.01-0.08
0.88-0.0223.50.09660.01-0.02-0.12
0.82-0.03240.12560.01-0.03-0.18
0.74-0.0424.50.15040.01-0.04-0.26
0.65-0.04250.16510.02-0.04-0.35
0.56-0.0525.50.16800.02-0.05-0.43
0.48-0.05260.16180.02-0.05-0.52
0.41-0.0526.50.15020.02-0.05-0.59
0.35-0.05270.13610.02-0.05-0.65
0.30-0.0527.50.12160.01-0.05-0.70
0.25-0.05280.10780.01-0.05-0.74
0.22-0.0428.50.09520.01-0.04-0.78
0.19-0.04290.08390.01-0.04-0.81
0.16-0.0429.50.07400.01-0.04-0.83

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

spot1922252831363K0
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

spot132024.529354477K77K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 94K call contracts, 175K 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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