HowThe settle strike with the smallest total payout to option holders for the 2026-11-20 expiration, over 47 strikes carrying 46,286 open contracts. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:57 PM ET
How17,915 put contracts / 28,371 call contracts = 0.63 for the 2026-11-20 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:57 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.
■ put-side pain■ call-side painTotal payout option writers would owe at each settle price (both sides, all open interest, ×100 shares) — low settles hurt put writers, high settles hurt call writers. The minimum — 17 — is the max pain price.
Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)UVXY 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
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).
Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 114.6% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.
Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20
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 Δ
Call Θ
Strike
Γ
Vega
Put Θ
Put Δ
0.96
-0.01
14.5
0.0338
0.00
-0.01
-0.04
0.93
-0.02
15
0.0505
0.00
-0.02
-0.07
0.89
-0.03
15.5
0.0702
0.01
-0.03
-0.11
0.83
-0.04
16
0.0886
0.01
-0.04
-0.17
0.77
-0.04
16.5
0.1024
0.01
-0.04
-0.23
0.70
-0.06
17
0.1100
0.01
-0.06
-0.30
0.64
-0.06
17.5
0.1122
0.01
-0.06
-0.36
0.58
-0.07
18
0.1107
0.01
-0.07
-0.42
0.53
-0.07
18.5
0.1070
0.01
-0.07
-0.47
0.48
-0.08
19
0.1022
0.01
-0.08
-0.52
0.44
-0.08
19.5
0.0969
0.01
-0.08
-0.56
0.40
-0.08
20
0.0914
0.01
-0.08
-0.60
0.37
-0.08
20.5
0.0859
0.01
-0.08
-0.63
0.34
-0.08
21
0.0806
0.01
-0.08
-0.66
0.31
-0.08
21.5
0.0756
0.01
-0.08
-0.69
Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 47 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.
Stacked — layer the expirations
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.
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.