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Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Jul 29, 12:48 AM ET

TSLA max pain

Spot (delayed)$306.83
Max pain · Wed, Jul 29$315+2.7% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$6.93±2.3% by Wed, Jul 29
Put/Call OI0.5252K puts / 100K calls
Call wall$350largest call OI
Put wall$307.5largest put OI
IV3046.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$32.2Mper 1% move

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Wed, Jul 29$315+2.7%today
Fri, Jul 31$320+4.3%2d
Mon, Aug 3$317.5+3.5%5d
Wed, Aug 5$315+2.7%7d
Fri, Aug 7$335+9.2%9d
Mon, Aug 10$310+1.0%12d
Fri, Aug 14$350+14.1%16d
Fri, Aug 21$362.5+18.1%23d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot315200304408512616720$3.5B$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 — 315 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Wed, Jul 29

spot315200280307.5332.5357.539525K25K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TSLA open contracts per strike for Wed, Jul 29.

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 · Wed, Jul 29

spot315200280307.5332.5357.5395124K124K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Wed, Jul 29

spot235277319361403445213%53%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 53.4% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Wed, Jul 29

spot210287.5312.5337.5362.5405+$34.3M$34.3M
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 · Wed, Jul 29

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.96-0.152900.00810.01-0.15-0.04
0.94-0.23292.50.01160.02-0.23-0.06
0.92-0.362950.01670.03-0.36-0.09
0.87-0.59297.50.02340.04-0.59-0.13
0.80-0.963000.03120.04-0.96-0.20
0.72-1.55302.50.03860.06-1.55-0.28
0.61-2.383050.04400.06-2.38-0.39
0.50-2.92307.50.04580.07-2.92-0.50
0.39-2.353100.04370.06-2.35-0.61
0.29-1.59312.50.03840.06-1.59-0.71
0.21-1.053150.03160.05-1.05-0.79
0.15-0.68317.50.02460.04-0.68-0.85
0.10-0.433200.01840.03-0.44-0.90
0.07-0.28322.50.01340.02-0.29-0.93
0.05-0.193250.00970.02-0.20-0.95

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

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot80280322.5362.541566042K0
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

History starts accruing now: first snapshot taken 2026-07-28. We chart only days we actually observed — check back as the record builds. The measured hit-rate across all tickers lives on the accuracy ledger.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot5230330400520730136K136K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 3.3M call contracts, 2.4M 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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