Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 6:11 AM ET

WULF max pain

Spot (delayed)$12.33
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:11 AM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 13$11.5
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceMax pain from Cboe open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:11 AM ET
HowThe settle strike with the smallest total payout to option holders for the 2026-11-13 expiration, over 39 strikes carrying 98,089 open contracts. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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-6.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.41
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:11 AM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-13 expiration = 1.41 USD, 11.4% of 12.33 spot.
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±11.4% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.25
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:11 AM ET
How19,747 put contracts / 78,342 call contracts = 0.25 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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20K puts / 78K calls
Call wall$14
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:11 AM ET
How14.00 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$11
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:11 AM ET
How11.00 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
IV30106.6%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:11 AM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$1.6M
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:11 AM 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 ≈ $6.5

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 13$11.5-6.7%3d
Fri, Nov 20$13+5.4%10d
Fri, Nov 27$12-2.7%17d
Fri, Dec 4$12-2.7%24d
Fri, Dec 11$11.5-6.7%31d
Fri, Dec 18one strike decides38d
Fri, Jan 15$12-2.7%66d
Fri, Feb 19$13+5.4%101d
Fri, Mar 19$12-2.7%129d
Fri, Apr 16one strike decides157d
Fri, May 21$15+21.7%192d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot11.51611152025$90M$0
■ 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 — 11.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot11.517.51114.5182222K22K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)WULF 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

spot11.517.510.513.516.52010K10K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot4812172125447%99%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 135.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 6.56.59.512.515.518.523+$553K−$553K
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
0.97-0.0190.03080.00-0.01-0.03
0.95-0.029.50.04860.00-0.02-0.05
0.92-0.03100.07450.00-0.03-0.08
0.88-0.0510.50.10900.00-0.05-0.13
0.81-0.06110.14960.00-0.06-0.19
0.72-0.0811.50.18970.00-0.08-0.28
0.61-0.09120.21990.01-0.09-0.39
0.50-0.0912.50.23220.01-0.09-0.50
0.39-0.09130.22420.01-0.09-0.61
0.29-0.0713.50.19980.00-0.07-0.71
0.21-0.06140.16640.00-0.06-0.80
0.14-0.0514.50.13110.00-0.05-0.86
0.10-0.03150.09880.00-0.03-0.91
0.07-0.0215.50.07190.00-0.02-0.94
0.04-0.02160.05100.00-0.02-0.96

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 39 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot18.513.518.5263655K0
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

spot0.5611.5172334304K304K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 2.8M call contracts, 962K 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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