Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 9:23 PM ET

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Spot (delayed)$8.94
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:23 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 20Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$0.69
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:23 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-20 expiration = 0.69 USD, 7.7% of 8.94 spot.
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±7.7% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.35
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:23 PM ET
How1,370 put contracts / 3,876 call contracts = 0.35 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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1K puts / 4K calls
Call wall$7
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:23 PM ET
How7.00 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$5
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:23 PM ET
How5.00 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
IV3056.5%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:23 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$46K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 9:23 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 ≈ $4

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 5.6% 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$8.5-4.9%17d
Fri, Dec 4$8-10.5%24d
Fri, Dec 11one strike decides31d
Fri, Dec 18$7-21.7%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 5.6% 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

spot14681012721721
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TDOC 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

spot147.5910.512143143
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot468101214220%51%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 58.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 44681012+$14K−$14K
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
0.98-0.005.50.02000.00-0.00-0.02
0.97-0.0160.03080.00-0.01-0.03
0.96-0.016.50.04890.00-0.01-0.04
0.94-0.0170.07970.00-0.01-0.06
0.90-0.017.50.13360.00-0.01-0.10
0.83-0.0180.22560.00-0.01-0.17
0.70-0.028.50.35380.01-0.02-0.30
0.50-0.0290.42530.01-0.02-0.50
0.31-0.029.50.35960.01-0.02-0.69
0.20-0.01100.25530.00-0.01-0.81
0.13-0.0110.50.17540.00-0.01-0.87
0.09-0.01110.12230.00-0.01-0.91
0.06-0.0111.50.08740.00-0.01-0.94
0.04-0.01120.06420.00-0.01-0.96
0.03-0.00130.03700.00-0.00-0.97

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 23 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot13.568.5112K0
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

spot14.5811.51522.522K22K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 129K call contracts, 59K 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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