One word of caution: pre-market trading volume is only 11k TSLA shares so far - so this is light trading that might be reversed during the regular trading session.
Having said that, TSLA is now +85% higher than it was in the summer at the $179-ish low. That's an incredible run-up over just 5 months from such a high market cap company, and I'm wondering how many of the shorts that shorted below $200 are still short today, and at what price levels they are going to start hurting. Very few shorts who shorted this year are still in profitable positions.
I'm also wondering to what extent NASDAQ options market makers are trying to hit max-pain levels and attempt to walk back the TSLA price, or are most of them flowing with the delta and buying the underlying stock meanwhile?
Ihor is on vacation (and his tracking wasn't very accurate for Tesla lately) - and the NASDAQ October 31 TSLA short interest report will be released on November 11: next Monday.
Until then we'll probably be in the dark about how TSLA short interest evolved after the Q3 earnings report.