NUE · Option chain

NUE Option Chain

Every listed NUE strike within 25% of spot, across the next 6 expirations — calls and puts side by side with last price, volume and open interest, plus the closing bid and ask.

Open interest and pricing as of the close on 2026-09-03. Recomputed every morning before the open.

Spot

$262.47

Call open interest

20,343

Put open interest

8,926

Put/call (volume)

0.52

869 contracts changed hands across these expirations — 571 calls against 298 puts. Calls outtraded puts 1.92 to one.

Sep 18, 202613 days

call OI 7,372 · put OI 3,518

Calls				Strike	Puts
Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI		Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI
64.64	61.80 / 64.30	2	166	200	—	0.00 / 1.00	—	377
—	50.90 / 54.40	—	457	210	—	0.00 / 0.70	—	222
45.40	41.00 / 44.60	9	198	220	0.29	0.10 / 0.75	1	393
—	31.50 / 34.70	—	216	230	0.43	0.15 / 0.85	31	641
28.50	22.30 / 25.40	3	783	240	1.15	0.90 / 1.30	14	398
17.50	14.60 / 17.00	8	789	250	2.75	2.35 / 3.40	8	400
9.20	7.70 / 10.30	118	906	260	5.20	5.30 / 7.10	13	679
4.68	3.80 / 5.10	36	1,162	270	—	10.30 / 12.70	—	372
2.00	1.60 / 2.35	4	974	280	—	18.10 / 20.80	—	35
0.90	0.60 / 1.15	2	914	290	—	26.60 / 29.60	—	1
0.53	0.15 / 0.65	15	545	300	—	36.10 / 39.10	—	—
0.23	0.00 / 1.10	2	37	310	—	45.70 / 49.70	—	—
—	0.00 / 1.95	—	225	320	—	55.70 / 59.00	—	—
A dash means the contract did not trade — not a price of zero.

Oct 16, 202641 days

call OI 2,847 · put OI 1,397

Calls				Strike	Puts
Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI		Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI
65.07	61.80 / 64.90	1	35	200	0.37	0.05 / 0.75	1	114
—	52.70 / 55.20	—	166	210	0.65	0.40 / 0.90	11	255
—	42.60 / 45.70	—	41	220	1.25	0.95 / 1.40	31	249
—	34.50 / 37.20	—	225	230	2.25	2.00 / 2.50	7	221
29.60	26.00 / 28.50	2	321	240	3.90	3.70 / 4.40	49	320
21.45	18.80 / 21.10	6	322	250	6.75	6.50 / 7.00	43	174
14.20	13.30 / 14.20	97	523	260	10.30	9.40 / 11.00	20	38
9.40	8.50 / 9.40	77	313	270	14.96	14.70 / 17.30	32	16
5.90	5.30 / 6.70	69	203	280	—	21.40 / 23.80	—	7
4.23	3.20 / 3.80	31	336	290	—	29.30 / 32.10	—	—
2.11	1.90 / 2.35	4	196	300	—	37.20 / 40.10	—	1
2.05	0.95 / 1.45	1	143	310	—	46.50 / 49.80	—	2
—	0.05 / 2.00	—	23	320	—	56.30 / 59.30	—	—
A dash means the contract did not trade — not a price of zero.

Dec 18, 2026104 days

call OI 2,042 · put OI 1,392

Calls				Strike	Puts
Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI		Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI
—	65.60 / 68.00	—	225	200	—	1.30 / 2.70	—	83
—	56.70 / 59.70	—	81	210	—	2.00 / 3.80	—	616
—	48.40 / 51.30	—	113	220	4.50	4.20 / 5.30	1	195
—	40.60 / 43.50	—	149	230	6.88	6.50 / 7.70	1	95
—	33.50 / 36.40	—	162	240	—	9.20 / 10.10	—	289
—	27.00 / 30.00	—	418	250	—	12.70 / 14.30	—	12
24.90	21.40 / 24.00	2	124	260	17.20	16.00 / 18.70	1	18
19.50	16.80 / 19.40	20	227	270	—	22.20 / 24.20	—	22
14.90	12.90 / 15.10	7	342	280	—	27.70 / 30.30	—	25
—	9.90 / 11.20	—	76	290	—	34.60 / 36.90	—	18
—	7.50 / 8.90	—	66	300	—	42.20 / 44.40	—	—
—	5.60 / 6.90	—	23	310	—	50.40 / 52.50	—	19
5.60	4.20 / 5.80	1	36	320	—	58.20 / 62.00	—	—
A dash means the contract did not trade — not a price of zero.

Jan 15, 2027132 days

call OI 6,455 · put OI 1,913

Calls				Strike	Puts
Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI		Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI
—	66.70 / 69.20	—	486	200	—	1.85 / 4.50	—	395
—	58.20 / 61.00	—	120	210	—	4.00 / 5.00	—	268
54.55	50.10 / 52.60	1	279	220	6.07	5.80 / 6.80	1	297
—	42.50 / 45.50	—	841	230	8.45	8.20 / 9.40	12	101
—	35.40 / 38.10	—	220	240	10.74	10.90 / 12.80	1	369
30.70	29.50 / 32.40	5	1,188	250	15.25	14.20 / 16.70	2	344
—	23.90 / 26.60	—	339	260	19.10	19.00 / 20.80	15	91
22.10	19.40 / 21.90	30	444	270	—	24.20 / 26.20	—	28
—	15.60 / 17.40	—	838	280	—	29.60 / 32.20	—	17
—	12.00 / 13.90	—	409	290	—	36.30 / 38.80	—	2
—	9.80 / 10.50	—	828	300	—	43.60 / 46.00	—	—
—	7.70 / 8.30	—	180	310	—	50.90 / 53.90	—	1
7.75	5.90 / 8.10	2	283	320	—	59.40 / 62.20	—	—
A dash means the contract did not trade — not a price of zero.

Mar 19, 2027195 days

call OI 1,485 · put OI 701

Calls				Strike	Puts
Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI		Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI
—	70.30 / 72.80	—	30	200	—	3.60 / 6.10	—	30
64.87	62.50 / 65.50	2	8	210	—	5.60 / 8.70	—	38
—	54.80 / 57.90	—	15	220	—	8.80 / 11.00	—	22
—	47.70 / 50.80	—	60	230	—	11.50 / 13.20	—	72
—	41.30 / 43.90	—	166	240	15.00	14.70 / 16.90	2	48
—	35.20 / 37.90	—	438	250	—	18.60 / 20.90	—	342
32.40	30.00 / 33.20	6	376	260	—	23.10 / 25.70	—	71
—	25.50 / 28.20	—	63	270	28.60	28.20 / 30.40	1	70
—	21.10 / 23.60	—	75	280	—	33.00 / 36.40	—	3
—	17.80 / 20.10	—	131	290	—	40.10 / 42.60	—	5
—	14.50 / 17.40	—	46	300	—	47.70 / 49.50	—	—
13.73	12.10 / 14.90	8	31	310	—	54.80 / 56.90	—	—
—	10.00 / 11.80	—	46	320	—	62.10 / 65.40	—	—
A dash means the contract did not trade — not a price of zero.

Apr 16, 2027223 days

call OI 142 · put OI 5

Calls				Strike	Puts
Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI		Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI
—	56.00 / 59.70	—	3	220	—	10.30 / 12.40	—	—
—	49.60 / 52.50	—	5	230	—	12.80 / 14.80	—	—
—	37.30 / 40.20	—	—	250	—	20.00 / 22.80	—	5
—	31.90 / 34.90	—	31	260	—	24.50 / 27.10	—	—
—	23.40 / 25.80	—	72	280	—	35.40 / 38.00	—	—
—	19.60 / 22.20	—	6	290	—	41.60 / 44.20	—	—
—	16.60 / 18.70	—	12	300	—	48.30 / 51.00	—	—
—	13.70 / 15.90	—	12	310	—	55.60 / 58.20	—	—
—	11.10 / 13.60	—	1	320	—	63.30 / 65.90	—	—
A dash means the contract did not trade — not a price of zero.

How to read this chain

Calls sit on the left, puts on the right, and every row is one strike. The highlighted row is the strike closest to spot. Open interest is the number of contracts still outstanding at that strike — positions that exist right now. Volume is how many traded on the session shown. Open interest builds slowly and marks where positioning has accumulated; volume spikes and marks where attention went today.

Strikes with no open interest and no trades on either side are omitted, and the ladder is trimmed to within 25% of spot — the far wings are almost entirely empty and say nothing about positioning.

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