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

TSLA max pain

Spot (delayed)$397.1
Max pain · Mon, Nov 2$395-0.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$11.45±2.9% by Mon, Nov 2
Put/Call OI0.4422K puts / 50K calls
Call wall$455largest call OI
Put wall$325largest put OI
IV3036.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$43.1Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $405

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

spot395300333366399432465$154M$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 — 395 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Mon, Nov 2

spot395300342.5372.5395417.544010K10K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TSLA open contracts per strike for Mon, Nov 2.

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

spot300355380402.5425447.5+3K−3K
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; 2 strikes were in only one day’s snapshot (each keeps its largest strikes) and are left out. Biggest moves: 325 +3K · 410 +2K · 455 +2K · 450 +1K

Volume by strike · Mon, Nov 2

spot395300342.5372.5395417.54407K7K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Mon, Nov 2

spot300333366399432465112%22%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 30.9% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Mon, Nov 2

spotflip 405300342.5372.5395417.5440+$14.1M−$14.1M
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, Nov 2

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.95-0.163800.00710.05-0.17-0.05
0.93-0.20382.50.00910.06-0.21-0.07
0.91-0.263850.01140.07-0.27-0.09
0.88-0.32387.50.01430.09-0.33-0.12
0.84-0.403900.01750.10-0.40-0.16
0.80-0.47392.50.02080.12-0.48-0.20
0.74-0.543950.02410.14-0.55-0.26
0.68-0.61397.50.02700.15-0.61-0.32
0.61-0.654000.02930.16-0.66-0.39
0.53-0.67402.50.03050.17-0.68-0.47
0.46-0.674050.03060.17-0.67-0.54
0.38-0.64407.50.02960.16-0.64-0.62
0.31-0.584100.02740.15-0.58-0.69
0.25-0.52412.50.02450.14-0.51-0.75
0.20-0.444150.02120.12-0.44-0.81

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 54 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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