Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 9, 6:38 PM ET

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Spot (delayed)$347.42
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 6:38 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 20Not showntoo thin to read
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$9
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 6:38 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-20 expiration = 9.00 USD, 2.6% of 347.42 spot.
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±2.6% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI1.38
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 6:38 PM ET
How18 put contracts / 13 call contracts = 1.38 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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18 puts / 13 calls
IV3016.9%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 6:38 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol

Too thin to read: 31 open contracts across 12 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 20too thin10d
Fri, Dec 18too thin38d
Fri, Jan 15$330-5.0%66d
Fri, Apr 16too thin157d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Too thin to read: 31 open contracts across 12 strikes. Max pain, walls and gamma print from 100 contracts across 5 strikes.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot31032533534535536544
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)VV 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

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot31032233434635837047%13%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 18.5% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Greeks by strike · Fri, Nov 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.94-0.143100.00480.07-0.14-0.06
0.93-0.153150.00610.09-0.15-0.08
0.88-0.173250.01030.12-0.17-0.12
0.84-0.193300.01380.14-0.19-0.16
0.79-0.203350.01890.17-0.20-0.21
0.70-0.213400.02620.21-0.21-0.30
0.57-0.213450.03450.24-0.21-0.43
0.39-0.183500.03670.23-0.18-0.61
0.23-0.153550.02820.19-0.15-0.77
0.14-0.123600.01900.14-0.12-0.85
0.10-0.103650.01280.11-0.10-0.90
0.07-0.093700.00890.08-0.08-0.93

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

spot210335350365380395420
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

spot2052452853253654054343
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 215 call contracts, 89 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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