Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 10, 6:03 AM ET

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Spot (delayed)$25.78
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:03 AM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 13Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.65
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:03 AM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-13 expiration = 1.65 USD, 6.4% of 25.78 spot.
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±6.4% by Fri, Nov 13
Put/Call OI0.49
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:03 AM ET
How2,482 put contracts / 5,116 call contracts = 0.49 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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2K puts / 5K calls
Call wall$29
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:03 AM ET
How29.00 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$25
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:03 AM ET
How25.00 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
IV3068.0%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:03 AM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$197K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 10, 6:03 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 ≈ $18.5

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 5.8% 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 13one strike decides3d
Fri, Nov 20$23-10.8%10d
Fri, Nov 27$24-6.9%17d
Fri, Dec 4$24-6.9%24d
Fri, Dec 11$23.5-8.9%31d
Fri, Dec 18$22-14.7%38d
Fri, Jan 15$23-10.8%66d
Fri, Apr 16one strike decides157d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 5.8% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot16.519.522.525.528.532745745
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)YINN 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

spot16.51921.52426.529714714
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spot172024273134284%70%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 75.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 13

spotflip 18.516.519.522.525.528.532+$61K−$61K
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
0.91-0.0522.50.06090.00-0.05-0.09
0.88-0.06230.07910.01-0.06-0.12
0.84-0.0723.50.10070.01-0.07-0.16
0.79-0.09240.12460.01-0.09-0.21
0.72-0.1024.50.14900.01-0.10-0.28
0.64-0.11250.17060.01-0.11-0.36
0.55-0.1125.50.18540.01-0.11-0.45
0.46-0.11260.18990.01-0.11-0.54
0.36-0.1026.50.18260.01-0.10-0.63
0.28-0.09270.16480.01-0.09-0.72
0.21-0.0727.50.14040.01-0.07-0.79
0.15-0.06280.11370.01-0.06-0.85
0.11-0.0428.50.08850.01-0.04-0.89
0.07-0.03290.06680.00-0.03-0.93
0.05-0.0229.50.04940.00-0.02-0.95

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 33 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot16.519.522.525.528.5322K0
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

spot112126.53546704K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 42K call contracts, 15K 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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