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Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Jul 29, 2:18 AM ET

TSLA max pain

Spot (delayed)$306.83
Max pain · Fri, Aug 14$350+14.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$25.55±8.3% by Fri, Aug 14
Put/Call OI0.7729K puts / 38K calls
Call wall$400largest call OI
Put wall$310largest put OI
IV3046.6%30-day implied vol
Net GEX−$5.8Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $240

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

spot35080184288392496600$737M$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 — 350 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Aug 14

spot35080275317.53654154703K3K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TSLA open contracts per strike for Fri, Aug 14.

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, Aug 14

spot35080275317.53654154702K2K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Aug 14

spot80184288392496600184%48%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 48.2% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Aug 14

spotflip 240200295335385435500+$2.0M$2.0M
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, Aug 14

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.89-0.192700.00540.13-0.19-0.11
0.86-0.222750.00650.15-0.22-0.14
0.82-0.252800.00770.17-0.26-0.18
0.78-0.292850.00890.20-0.29-0.22
0.73-0.322900.01000.22-0.32-0.27
0.68-0.342950.01100.24-0.35-0.32
0.62-0.363000.01180.25-0.37-0.38
0.56-0.383050.01220.26-0.38-0.44
0.50-0.383100.01240.27-0.38-0.51
0.47-0.38312.50.01240.26-0.38-0.54
0.44-0.373150.01230.26-0.38-0.57
0.41-0.37317.50.01210.26-0.37-0.60
0.38-0.363200.01190.25-0.36-0.63
0.32-0.343250.01120.24-0.34-0.68
0.27-0.323300.01030.22-0.32-0.73

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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