Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Sep 12, 3:44 AM ET

TSLA max pain

Spot (delayed)$365.25
Max pain · Mon, Sep 21$365-0.1% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$16.93±4.6% by Mon, Sep 21
Put/Call OI0.914K puts / 4K calls
Call wall$380largest call OI
Put wall$345largest put OI
IV3038.9%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$255Kper 1% move · flip ≈ $405
Earnings · expectedWed, Oct 21usually after the close

Event risk before this expiration: FOMC decision Wed, Sep 16 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Mon, Sep 14$365-0.1%2d
Wed, Sep 16$362.5-0.8%4d
Fri, Sep 18$360-1.4%6d
Mon, Sep 21$365-0.1%9d
Wed, Sep 23$367.5+0.6%11d
Fri, Sep 25$355-2.8%13d
Fri, Oct 2$355-2.8%20d
Fri, Oct 9$355-2.8%27d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

spot365280310340370400430$25M$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 — 365 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Mon, Sep 21

spot365280325347.5370392.5415777777
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TSLA open contracts per strike for Mon, Sep 21.

Open-interest change · 2026-09-102026-09-11

spot280327.5350372.5395417.5+558558
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. Biggest moves: 345 +558 · 380 +499 · 390 248 · 367.5 +163

Volume by strike · Mon, Sep 21

spot365280325347.5370392.5415804804
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Mon, Sep 21

spot28031034037040043069%35%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 35.0% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Mon, Sep 21

spotflip 405280325347.5370392.5415+$1.5M$1.5M
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 · Mon, Sep 21

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.81-0.29347.50.01230.16-0.29-0.19
0.78-0.323500.01370.18-0.32-0.22
0.75-0.34352.50.01500.20-0.34-0.25
0.71-0.373550.01620.21-0.37-0.29
0.67-0.39357.50.01720.22-0.39-0.34
0.62-0.413600.01800.23-0.41-0.38
0.57-0.42362.50.01850.24-0.42-0.43
0.53-0.433650.01870.24-0.43-0.47
0.48-0.43367.50.01870.24-0.44-0.52
0.43-0.433700.01840.24-0.43-0.57
0.39-0.42372.50.01780.23-0.42-0.61
0.35-0.413750.01710.23-0.41-0.65
0.31-0.39377.50.01620.21-0.39-0.69
0.27-0.363800.01520.20-0.37-0.73
0.24-0.34382.50.01410.19-0.35-0.77

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 51 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot25300337.5375412.548543K0
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

07-2808-0508-1308-2108-3109-08377.47296.06
— 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

spot5230330400520730153K153K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 3.1M 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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