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

TSLA max pain

Spot (delayed)$397.1
Max pain · Fri, Feb 19$360-9.3% vs spot
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$74.53±18.8% by Fri, Feb 19
Put/Call OI0.5947K puts / 80K calls
Call wall$450largest call OI
Put wall$300largest put OI
IV3036.8%30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$27.4Mper 1% move · flip ≈ $405

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 · Jobs report Fri, Dec 4 · FOMC decision Wed, Dec 9 · CPI release Thu, Dec 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

spot36050194338482626770$2.3B$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 — 360 — is the max pain price.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot360502903453954455108K8K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)TSLA open contracts per strike for Fri, Feb 19.

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

spot200300355405455530+821−821
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. Biggest moves: 220 +821 · 200 +399 · 400 +386 · 210 +320

Volume by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot36050290345395445510304304
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spot50194338482626770122%40%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 41.7% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Feb 19

spotflip 405200300350400450520+$5.4M−$5.4M
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, Feb 19

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.75-0.123600.00340.72-0.13-0.26
0.73-0.123650.00350.75-0.14-0.28
0.71-0.133700.00360.77-0.14-0.30
0.69-0.133750.00380.80-0.14-0.32
0.67-0.143800.00390.81-0.15-0.34
0.65-0.143850.00400.83-0.15-0.36
0.63-0.143900.00400.85-0.15-0.38
0.61-0.153950.00410.86-0.15-0.40
0.59-0.154000.00420.88-0.16-0.42
0.57-0.154050.00420.88-0.16-0.45
0.55-0.154100.00430.89-0.16-0.47
0.52-0.154150.00430.90-0.16-0.49
0.50-0.154200.00430.90-0.16-0.51
0.48-0.154250.00430.90-0.16-0.53
0.46-0.154300.00430.89-0.16-0.55

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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