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

TSLA max pain

Spot (delayed)$397.1
Max pain · Fri, Nov 20$375-5.6% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$30.88±7.8% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.99261K puts / 264K calls
Call wall$700largest call OI
Put wall$250largest put OI
IV3036.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$82.2Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $400

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

spot3755184363542721900$10.8B$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 — 375 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot375526032037042048042K42K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TSLA open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.

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

spot5290335380425480+6K−6K
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: 470 +6K · 380 −3K · 400 −2K · 450 +1K

Volume by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot37552603203704204807K7K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot140292444596748900136%36%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 38.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 400200295340385430500+$18.8M−$18.8M
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, Nov 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.88-0.163600.00480.20-0.19-0.12
0.86-0.193650.00560.23-0.21-0.14
0.83-0.213700.00640.26-0.23-0.17
0.79-0.243750.00720.28-0.25-0.21
0.76-0.263800.00810.31-0.28-0.25
0.71-0.293850.00880.34-0.30-0.29
0.67-0.313900.00950.36-0.32-0.34
0.62-0.323950.01000.38-0.33-0.39
0.56-0.334000.01040.39-0.34-0.44
0.51-0.344050.01060.40-0.34-0.49
0.46-0.334100.01060.39-0.34-0.55
0.41-0.334150.01040.39-0.33-0.60
0.36-0.314200.01000.37-0.31-0.65
0.31-0.294250.00950.35-0.29-0.70
0.27-0.274300.00890.33-0.27-0.74

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

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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