Tesla on Moon.com: what a TSLA bet does at 10x, 100x and 1000x

Tesla on Moon.com: the bet in one paragraph

A Tesla bet on Moon is a call on direction, not a purchase of shares. You open the TSLA market, pick Up or Down, set a stake and a leverage multiplier anywhere from 1x to 1000x, and your profit or loss is the percentage move in Tesla’s share price, multiplied by your leverage, applied to your stake. There is no stock to hold and no broker account behind it; the bet settles in your Moon balance. Tesla trades on Nasdaq during US exchange hours on weekdays, unlike crypto, which never closes; Moon advertises real-money betting 24/7, and the markets screen in the app is where to see whether TSLA is open at a given hour.

Sign up through our referral link, flip the account into play money, and open TSLA. Five minutes watching the price tick against a 100x position teaches more than any table below.

• 1x to 1000x Leverage range
• 0.1% Liquidation distance at 1000x
• 1% Opening fee
• 1% Liquidation distance at 100x

What a Tesla move pays at each leverage tier

The arithmetic is the same on every Moon market, so the only variable that is Tesla-specific is how far TSLA actually moves. Take a $100 stake and a 1% move in Tesla’s price. Figures are gross, before the fees covered further down.

Read the last column first. At 1000x a Tesla move of 0.1% against your entry ends the bet. At a Tesla price of around $358 that is about a 36-cent move, which Tesla can cover inside a minute on a volatile trading day. At 100x the line is 1%, or about $3.58. At 10x it is 10%, or about $35.80, which for Tesla is closer to a bad-news day than an ordinary one. The leverage guide has the full tier table and an interactive calculator; the liquidation guide explains how Moon closes the position when the line is hit.

The biggest Tesla bet we have seen

We would like to show a record Tesla win here the way we can for Bitcoin or gold, but we cannot: Tesla has not produced a large win or a large liquidation in the sources we track. That is not the same as Tesla being a small market on Moon, only that the biggest bets so far have landed elsewhere. We will not invent a figure to fill the gap.

What we can show instead is the arithmetic that would apply the moment a large Tesla trade does land. At 100x the liquidation line is 1% from entry, about $3.58 at a $358 price. At 500x it is 0.2%, about 72 cents, and at 1000x it is half that again. Check the biggest wins board and the liquidations page for whichever Tesla trade shows up first.

Fees on a Tesla bet

Moon charges the same four things on Tesla as on every market. From its help centre and terms:

• Opening fee: 1% of the stake. $1.00 on a $100 bet, at any leverage. Leverage changes your exposure, not this fee.
• Holding fee: every 8 hours the bet stays open, at a dynamic rate Moon does not publish as a number. Tesla only trades on Nasdaq during exchange hours, but Moon’s holding fee runs on the clock, not the exchange calendar, so a Tesla bet held over a weekend or an overnight close still accrues it every 8 hours.
• Performance fee: at least 10% of realized profit. Charged on winners only. On a $100 gross win it is $10.
• Spread: Moon’s terms reserve a pricing edge in its favour. It is inside the price you bet at rather than a separate line, so the liquidation distances in the table above are the before-spread figures.

So the 100x row above, a $100 win on a 1% move, is about $89 in hand: $100 gross, less the $1 opening fee, less a $10 performance fee, with holding fees on top if the bet ran past eight hours. The fees guide works three full examples, and if you registered with our code, 3.5% of every one of those fees comes back as rakeback.

Sizing a Tesla bet on Moon

Three rules that follow from the table rather than from opinion.

Choose leverage from the move you expect, not from the payout. If you think Tesla will move 2% today, 50x puts the liquidation line at 2% and 100x puts it at 1%, which is inside the normal noise of a single trading session for this stock. Lower leverage survives the noise.

Treat 500x and 1000x as minute-scale bets. At those tiers the liquidation line is 0.1% to 0.2% away, so the position either resolves fast or is closed by Moon fast. They are not positions to hold across a market close, and the holding fee agrees.

Practise on play money first. Moon’s simulated balance refills to $100,000 without limit and uses the same TSLA market and leverage ladder. Run twenty 100x bets there and count how many hit the line before they hit the target; the play money guide has a practice plan.

Other Moon markets

Bitcoin and gold take the same bet with the same fee stack; the Bitcoin page and gold page cover them, and the markets guide lists everything we have seen bets on, more than 30 markets across crypto, gold and silver, forex, stocks and indices. Availability depends on where you are; the FAQ has the current list.