Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Oct 30, 12:44 AM ET

TSLA max pain

Spot (delayed)$397.1
Max pain · Fri, Oct 30$382.5-3.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$8.47±2.1% by Fri, Oct 30
Put/Call OI1.22273K puts / 224K calls
Call wall$420largest call OI
Put wall$150largest put OI
IV3036.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$313.8Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $387.5

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Oct 30$382.5-3.7%today
Mon, Nov 2$395-0.5%3d
Wed, Nov 4$400+0.7%5d
Fri, Nov 6$385-3.0%7d
Mon, Nov 9$395-0.5%10d
Wed, Nov 11$395-0.5%12d
Fri, Nov 20$375-5.6%21d
Fri, Dec 18$350-11.9%49d
Fri, Jan 15$340-14.4%77d
Fri, Feb 19$360-9.3%112d
Fri, Mar 19$375-5.6%140d
Fri, Apr 16$375-5.6%168d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot382.5140212284356428500$3.7B$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 — 382.5 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Oct 30

spot382.5140255335377.5402.543032K32K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TSLA open contracts per strike for Fri, Oct 30.

Open-interest change · 2026-10-28 → 2026-10-29

spot140255335377.5402.5440+7K−7K
Net contracts opened (up, green) or closed (down, red) per strike since the previous snapshot: where the walls are building and where they’re unwinding. Only strikes observed on both days are compared; 4 strikes were in only one day’s snapshot (each keeps its largest strikes) and are left out. Biggest moves: 150 +7K · 405 +4K · 410 +3K · 460 +3K

Volume by strike · Fri, Oct 30

spot382.5140255335377.5402.543081K81K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Oct 30

spot315352389426463500164%39%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 41.1% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Oct 30

spotflip 387.5255330372.5395417.5460+$63.8M−$63.8M
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, Oct 30

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.98-0.073800.00390.01-0.08-0.02
0.97-0.09382.50.00520.01-0.10-0.02
0.97-0.133850.00720.02-0.13-0.03
0.95-0.19387.50.01020.02-0.20-0.05
0.93-0.293900.01470.03-0.30-0.07
0.89-0.48392.50.02080.04-0.48-0.11
0.83-0.783950.02830.05-0.79-0.17
0.76-1.26397.50.03620.07-1.26-0.24
0.66-1.974000.04290.08-1.97-0.34
0.55-2.76402.50.04660.09-2.76-0.46
0.43-2.584050.04620.08-2.58-0.57
0.32-1.75407.50.04190.08-1.75-0.68
0.23-1.114100.03490.07-1.13-0.78
0.15-0.69412.50.02720.05-0.72-0.85
0.10-0.434150.02000.04-0.47-0.91

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 60 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot140305352.5385417.545027K0
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 history — nearest expiry vs price

07-2808-1308-3109-1610-0210-20406.70296.06
— max pain (nearest expiry)- - delayed closeOne point per snapshot day since 2026-07-28; unobserved days are gaps, not guesses.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot5210340415520730142K142K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 3.1M call contracts, 2.5M 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.

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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