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

TSLA max pain

Spot (delayed)$397.1
Max pain · Wed, Nov 11$395-0.5% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$23.55±5.9% by Wed, Nov 11
Put/Call OI0.851K puts / 1K calls
Call wall$405largest call OI
Put wall$345largest put OI
IV3036.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$1.2Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $290

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

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

spot395250310370430490550$21M$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 · Wed, Nov 11

spot395250320365410455525568568
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TSLA open contracts per strike for Wed, Nov 11.

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, Nov 11

spot395250320365410455525406406
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Wed, Nov 11

spot25031037043049055095%34%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 37.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Wed, Nov 11

spotflip 290250320365410455525+$1.1M−$1.1M
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 · Wed, Nov 11

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.93-0.153600.00420.11-0.17-0.07
0.91-0.183650.00520.13-0.20-0.09
0.88-0.223700.00640.15-0.23-0.12
0.85-0.263750.00780.18-0.27-0.15
0.81-0.303800.00930.21-0.31-0.20
0.76-0.343850.01070.24-0.35-0.24
0.70-0.383900.01200.27-0.39-0.30
0.64-0.413950.01310.29-0.42-0.36
0.57-0.434000.01380.30-0.43-0.43
0.50-0.434050.01410.30-0.44-0.50
0.43-0.424100.01390.30-0.43-0.57
0.36-0.404150.01330.29-0.40-0.64
0.30-0.374200.01240.27-0.37-0.70
0.24-0.334250.01120.24-0.33-0.76
0.19-0.294300.00980.21-0.29-0.81

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 50 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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