VIX · Option chain

VIX Option Chain

Every listed VIX 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

$14.32

Call open interest

273,386

Put open interest

1,986,624

Put/call (volume)

2.68

166,363 contracts changed hands across these expirations — 45,236 calls against 121,127 puts. Puts outtraded calls 2.68 to one.

Sep 16, 202611 days

call OI 202,861 · put OI 963,248

Calls				Strike	Puts
Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI		Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI
—	4.90 / 5.40	—	365	11	—	0.00 / 0.01	—	23
4.61	4.40 / 4.90	7	22	11.5	—	0.00 / 0.02	—	2,021
4.32	3.90 / 4.40	2	2,134	12	—	0.00 / 0.03	—	576
3.95	3.40 / 3.90	2	44	12.5	—	0.00 / 0.03	—	120
3.18	2.93 / 3.40	9	2,269	13	0.01	0.00 / 0.03	1	4,572
2.79	2.44 / 2.90	10	402	13.5	—	0.00 / 0.04	—	1,046
2.18	1.96 / 2.41	111	2,206	14	0.03	0.01 / 0.05	116	34,457
1.71	1.50 / 1.95	163	1,725	14.5	0.06	0.04 / 0.09	3,780	20,659
1.34	1.25 / 1.68	995	8,021	15	0.18	0.15 / 0.20	9,717	85,294
1.01	0.99 / 1.08	493	2,625	15.5	0.37	0.35 / 0.41	2,308	98,139
0.82	0.78 / 0.88	915	32,089	16	0.70	0.64 / 0.72	10,181	252,300
0.70	0.66 / 0.73	13,654	40,907	16.5	1.07	1.00 / 1.08	40,356	84,467
0.59	0.56 / 0.63	13,968	53,778	17	1.41	1.40 / 1.49	3,800	280,563
0.53	0.50 / 0.57	7,221	56,274	17.5	1.84	1.83 / 1.93	826	99,011
A dash means the contract did not trade — not a price of zero.

Oct 21, 202646 days

call OI 31,206 · put OI 498,571

Calls				Strike	Puts
Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI		Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI
—	6.80 / 7.30	—	52	11	—	0.00 / 0.03	—	11
6.80	6.30 / 6.80	28	124	11.5	—	0.00 / 0.04	—	206
6.20	5.80 / 6.35	15	181	12	—	0.00 / 0.04	—	920
5.70	5.30 / 5.85	2	18	12.5	—	0.00 / 0.12	—	1,251
5.13	4.85 / 5.35	8	1,563	13	0.03	0.01 / 0.05	52	19,930
4.81	4.35 / 4.90	16	67	13.5	0.05	0.02 / 0.07	5,000	930
4.20	4.20 / 4.40	99	1,644	14	0.08	0.06 / 0.11	2,339	2,830
3.73	3.50 / 4.00	398	950	14.5	0.14	0.12 / 0.17	1,001	6,309
3.34	3.25 / 3.55	1,649	10,714	15	0.26	0.22 / 0.27	185	37,496
2.98	2.63 / 3.35	598	1,126	15.5	0.39	0.37 / 0.43	4,033	33,245
2.67	2.34 / 2.76	933	7,012	16	0.60	0.57 / 0.63	12,047	187,334
2.47	2.38 / 2.48	312	174	16.5	0.82	0.82 / 0.88	8	20,421
2.23	2.18 / 2.27	516	6,972	17	1.16	1.11 / 1.18	2,134	176,407
2.03	2.01 / 2.10	182	609	17.5	1.44	1.43 / 1.50	3	11,281
A dash means the contract did not trade — not a price of zero.

Nov 18, 202674 days

call OI 13,457 · put OI 278,486

Calls				Strike	Puts
Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI		Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI
—	7.50 / 8.15	—	121	11	—	0.00 / 0.05	—	440
—	7.00 / 7.65	—	2	11.5	—	0.00 / 0.05	—	3
6.91	6.50 / 7.15	15	21	12	—	0.00 / 0.06	—	641
—	6.05 / 6.70	—	21	12.5	—	0.01 / 0.06	—	50
5.90	5.55 / 6.20	17	379	13	—	0.03 / 0.08	—	9,419
—	5.10 / 5.75	—	24	13.5	0.09	0.07 / 0.12	30	1,105
4.96	4.65 / 5.30	98	1,071	14	0.14	0.12 / 0.17	5	3,969
4.55	4.25 / 4.90	48	539	14.5	0.23	0.20 / 0.26	15	24,013
4.18	3.90 / 4.50	689	4,601	15	0.35	0.33 / 0.38	270	112,906
3.60	3.15 / 4.05	207	2,734	16	0.71	0.69 / 0.75	10,282	45,735
3.07	2.99 / 3.10	88	3,944	17	1.21	1.18 / 1.26	10,071	80,205
A dash means the contract did not trade — not a price of zero.

Dec 16, 2026102 days

call OI 11,905 · put OI 181,488

Calls				Strike	Puts
Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI		Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI
—	7.60 / 8.30	—	112	11	—	0.00 / 0.08	—	205
—	7.10 / 7.85	—	10	11.5	—	0.00 / 0.09	—	140
7.10	6.60 / 7.35	5	40	12	—	0.01 / 0.05	—	1,241
6.55	6.15 / 6.85	10	60	12.5	—	0.02 / 0.08	—	652
6.06	5.70 / 6.40	6	168	13	—	0.05 / 0.12	—	1,968
5.70	5.25 / 5.95	33	55	13.5	0.15	0.10 / 0.17	2	1,775
5.25	4.85 / 5.55	3	1,145	14	0.22	0.17 / 0.25	127	2,238
4.90	4.45 / 5.15	136	1,388	14.5	0.33	0.28 / 0.36	205	5,915
4.50	4.45 / 4.80	272	3,140	15	0.48	0.42 / 0.50	45	67,492
3.95	3.85 / 4.00	413	2,910	16	0.88	0.81 / 0.89	43	15,310
3.45	3.35 / 3.50	83	2,877	17	1.39	1.32 / 1.42	2,028	84,552
A dash means the contract did not trade — not a price of zero.

Jan 20, 2027137 days

call OI 10,294 · put OI 33,544

Calls				Strike	Puts
Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI		Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI
—	8.55 / 9.35	—	40	11	—	0.00 / 0.07	—	61
—	8.05 / 8.90	—	1	11.5	—	0.00 / 0.08	—	1
8.05	7.55 / 8.40	1	36	12	—	0.01 / 0.09	—	140
—	7.10 / 7.95	—	71	12.5	—	0.03 / 0.11	—	2
—	6.60 / 7.45	—	51	13	—	0.04 / 0.13	—	1,039
—	6.15 / 7.00	—	10	13.5	—	0.08 / 0.16	—	1,009
6.19	5.75 / 6.60	138	2,132	14	—	0.14 / 0.23	—	1,116
5.85	5.35 / 6.20	34	1,282	14.5	0.28	0.22 / 0.31	10	326
5.40	5.00 / 5.80	515	2,252	15	0.39	0.33 / 0.43	12	4,393
4.72	4.70 / 5.35	47	2,922	16	0.72	0.65 / 0.75	1	6,965
4.30	4.15 / 4.35	24	1,497	17	1.13	1.10 / 1.20	2	18,492
A dash means the contract did not trade — not a price of zero.

Feb 17, 2027165 days

call OI 3,663 · put OI 31,287

Calls				Strike	Puts
Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI		Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI
—	8.95 / 9.90	—	187	11	—	0.00 / 0.08	—	32
—	8.45 / 9.40	—	5	11.5	—	0.00 / 0.08	—	—
8.47	7.95 / 8.90	15	27	12	—	0.00 / 0.09	—	25
—	7.50 / 8.45	—	5	12.5	—	0.01 / 0.11	—	—
7.50	7.05 / 8.00	13	26	13	0.08	0.04 / 0.13	1	283
—	6.60 / 7.55	—	5	13.5	—	0.07 / 0.17	—	1
6.70	6.15 / 7.10	2	39	14	0.20	0.13 / 0.23	70	2,004
6.25	5.75 / 6.70	2	105	14.5	0.25	0.20 / 0.30	10	96
5.90	5.40 / 6.00	11	566	15	0.36	0.31 / 0.41	10	2,275
5.30	5.00 / 5.90	4	2,284	16	0.68	0.64 / 0.71	1	11,214
4.65	4.55 / 4.75	1	414	17	—	1.02 / 1.13	—	15,357
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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