Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 9, 9:54 PM ET

WYFI max pain

Spot (delayed)$9.84
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 9:54 PM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 20Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$2.35
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 9:54 PM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-20 expiration = 2.35 USD, 23.9% of 9.84 spot.
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±23.9% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.47
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 9:54 PM ET
How8,140 put contracts / 17,351 call contracts = 0.47 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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8K puts / 17K calls
Call wall$17.5
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 9:54 PM ET
How17.50 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$15
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 9:54 PM ET
How15.00 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
IV30131.4%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 9:54 PM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$56K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 9, 9:54 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 ≈ $5

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 25.4% 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 20one strike decides10d
Fri, Dec 18$10+1.6%38d
Fri, Jan 15$20+103.2%66d
Fri, Feb 19one strike decides101d
Fri, May 21one strike decides192d
Thu, Jun 17$10+1.6%219d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 25.4% 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

spot2.591422.540604K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)WYFI 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

spot69111417.522.5450450
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot51729415365610%150%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 171.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 551015254565+$39K−$39K
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
1.00-0.012.50.00210.00-0.00-0.01
0.97-0.0150.02260.00-0.01-0.04
0.94-0.0260.04140.00-0.02-0.07
0.83-0.037.50.09170.00-0.03-0.17
0.63-0.0490.14710.01-0.04-0.36
0.48-0.05100.15680.01-0.05-0.52
0.34-0.04110.14200.01-0.04-0.65
0.21-0.0412.50.10470.01-0.03-0.79
0.13-0.03140.07270.00-0.03-0.86
0.10-0.02150.05700.00-0.02-0.90
0.05-0.0117.50.03210.00-0.01-0.94
0.03-0.01200.01920.00-0.01-0.96
0.02-0.0122.50.01220.00-0.01-0.97

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 13 strikes around the money — all 22 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot2.59141930505K0
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

spot2.591522.5457K7K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 54K call contracts, 22K 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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