Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 3, 12:36 AM ET

TSLZ max pain

Spot (delayed)$9.1
⊙
EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 12:36 AM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
Open the source document →
Max pain · Thu, Jun 17Not showntoo thin to read
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$5.18
⊙
INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 12:36 AM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2027-06-17 expiration = 5.18 USD, 56.9% of 9.10 spot.
Open the source document →
±56.9% by Thu, Jun 17
Put/Call OI0.02
⊙
INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 12:36 AM ET
How2 put contracts / 97 call contracts = 0.02 for the 2027-06-17 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
Open the source document →
2 puts / 97 calls
IV3086.6%
⊙
EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 12:36 AM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
Open the source document →
30-day implied vol

Too thin to read: 99 open contracts across 7 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 20$11+20.9%17d
Fri, Dec 18$10+9.9%45d
Fri, Mar 19$11+20.9%136d
Thu, Jun 17too thin226d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Too thin to read: 99 open contracts across 7 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot4913217575
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TSLZ open contracts per strike for Thu, Jun 17.

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 · Thu, Jun 17

Implied volatility by strike · Thu, Jun 17

spot81113161821108%87%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 97.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Thu, Jun 17

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.95-0.0040.03960.01-0.00-0.09
0.65-0.0180.06220.02-0.00-0.30
0.58-0.0190.06150.03-0.00-0.35
0.44-0.01120.05590.03-0.00-0.48
0.41-0.01130.05380.03-0.00-0.51
0.35-0.01150.04960.03-0.00-0.56
0.24-0.01210.03900.02-0.00-0.67

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot18131823292510
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

spot1713192531251251
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 1K call contracts, 526 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.

Keep going: TSLZ workspace · max pain, explained in full · options profit calculator · iron condor and credit spread calculator · GEX, defined · pin risk