VXX · Option chain

VXX Option Chain

Every listed VXX 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

$17.62

Call open interest

69,573

Put open interest

30,580

Put/call (volume)

0.24

35,212 contracts changed hands across these expirations — 28,502 calls against 6,710 puts. Calls outtraded puts 4.25 to one.

Sep 11, 20266 days

call OI 26,633 · put OI 6,465

Calls				Strike	Puts
Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI		Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI
2.84	2.58 / 2.91	2	1	15	0.01	0.00 / 0.01	1	2
1.69	1.62 / 2.00	69	52	16	0.03	0.00 / 0.01	10	60
—	1.11 / 1.42	—	3	16.5	0.04	0.00 / 0.06	1	251
0.76	0.74 / 0.83	35	173	17	0.10	0.08 / 0.16	49	486
0.46	0.44 / 0.50	111	90	17.5	0.30	0.26 / 0.45	226	1,680
0.29	0.28 / 0.30	639	239	18	0.54	0.52 / 0.75	58	473
0.17	0.16 / 0.26	110	799	18.5	0.99	0.92 / 1.08	99	693
0.11	0.11 / 0.14	4,932	1,978	19	1.36	1.34 / 1.51	65	359
0.08	0.07 / 0.13	7,034	2,498	19.5	—	1.70 / 2.05	—	128
0.06	0.05 / 0.08	2,118	8,751	20	2.30	2.21 / 2.47	7	683
0.07	0.04 / 0.07	3	4,072	20.5	—	2.58 / 3.10	—	22
0.05	0.01 / 0.06	251	2,695	21	3.40	3.25 / 3.45	2,785	1,093
0.06	0.01 / 0.12	5	3,026	21.5	3.74	3.65 / 4.00	5	109
0.03	0.02 / 0.04	42	2,256	22	—	4.05 / 4.50	—	426
A dash means the contract did not trade — not a price of zero.

Sep 18, 202613 days

call OI 13,791 · put OI 11,160

Calls				Strike	Puts
Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI		Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI
—	1.80 / 5.80	—	3	14	—	0.00 / 0.02	—	56
—	2.57 / 2.99	—	95	15	0.01	0.00 / 0.02	67	891
1.75	1.66 / 1.88	3	386	16	0.03	0.03 / 0.07	45	463
1.40	1.22 / 1.50	102	—	16.5	0.12	0.11 / 0.14	61	35
0.96	0.92 / 1.08	42	423	17	0.28	0.26 / 0.30	72	962
0.78	0.65 / 0.82	7	207	17.5	0.52	0.52 / 0.70	174	583
0.54	0.45 / 0.55	171	1,114	18	0.85	0.77 / 0.90	355	2,800
0.43	0.39 / 0.46	81	552	18.5	1.16	1.07 / 1.30	13	662
0.33	0.32 / 0.36	209	1,266	19	1.59	1.53 / 1.71	76	866
0.28	0.24 / 0.29	5	179	19.5	—	1.86 / 2.13	—	14
0.22	0.19 / 0.27	278	4,315	20	2.44	2.47 / 2.58	45	2,359
0.20	0.15 / 0.23	27	22	20.5	—	2.80 / 3.10	—	3
0.16	0.13 / 0.18	8	854	21	3.29	3.30 / 3.55	33	629
0.16	0.03 / 0.22	1	21	21.5	—	3.45 / 4.45	—	—
0.10	0.01 / 0.15	159	4,354	22	—	4.20 / 4.50	—	837
A dash means the contract did not trade — not a price of zero.

Sep 25, 202620 days

call OI 6,426 · put OI 2,187

Calls				Strike	Puts
Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI		Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI
—	2.21 / 5.80	—	—	14	—	0.00 / 0.07	—	22
2.86	2.56 / 3.05	1	—	15	—	0.00 / 0.10	—	34
—	0.98 / 3.65	—	3	15.5	—	0.00 / 0.30	—	158
—	1.65 / 2.27	—	443	16	—	0.04 / 0.22	—	453
1.50	1.30 / 1.71	20	2	16.5	0.21	0.15 / 0.51	28	494
1.25	1.08 / 1.24	22	546	17	0.44	0.34 / 0.70	29	314
0.97	0.78 / 1.02	15	81	17.5	0.71	0.63 / 0.93	7	220
0.80	0.68 / 0.83	119	99	18	1.00	0.90 / 1.20	49	203
0.63	0.54 / 0.69	12	96	18.5	0.91	0.93 / 1.61	2	96
0.53	0.45 / 0.55	2	183	19	1.71	1.66 / 1.84	3	62
0.46	0.21 / 0.51	4	202	19.5	—	1.91 / 2.27	—	21
0.37	0.14 / 0.46	6	456	20	—	2.33 / 2.82	—	100
—	0.13 / 0.47	—	191	20.5	—	2.85 / 3.15	—	3
0.30	0.24 / 0.36	22	3,196	21	—	3.35 / 3.70	—	2
—	0.02 / 0.30	—	72	21.5	—	3.65 / 4.15	—	5
0.21	0.00 / 0.25	3	856	22	—	3.20 / 5.55	—	—
A dash means the contract did not trade — not a price of zero.

Oct 02, 202627 days

call OI 3,085 · put OI 1,826

Calls				Strike	Puts
Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI		Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI
—	3.10 / 3.75	—	—	14.5	0.11	0.00 / 0.24	2	—
—	1.80 / 4.85	—	2	15	0.05	0.01 / 0.20	9	77
—	1.45 / 3.50	—	—	15.5	—	0.02 / 0.27	—	139
—	1.57 / 2.46	—	—	16	0.22	0.09 / 0.27	1	263
—	1.22 / 2.35	—	—	16.5	0.34	0.19 / 0.60	1	197
1.42	1.28 / 1.50	4	213	17	0.54	0.52 / 0.80	3	255
1.15	1.05 / 1.36	11	79	17.5	0.90	0.79 / 0.95	12	66
1.01	0.91 / 1.10	57	1,226	18	1.12	1.07 / 1.42	1	625
0.81	0.74 / 0.91	111	181	18.5	1.53	1.40 / 1.74	4	28
0.78	0.43 / 0.78	125	645	19	1.84	1.83 / 2.11	7	115
0.64	0.50 / 0.76	1	161	19.5	—	2.03 / 2.47	—	31
0.50	0.27 / 0.61	2	153	20	—	2.55 / 3.05	—	4
0.49	0.35 / 0.64	4	36	20.5	—	3.05 / 3.55	—	—
0.47	0.36 / 0.48	12	38	21	—	3.20 / 3.95	—	—
—	0.20 / 0.55	—	51	21.5	—	3.75 / 4.35	—	6
0.31	0.25 / 0.41	41	300	22	4.58	4.25 / 4.95	4	20
A dash means the contract did not trade — not a price of zero.

Oct 09, 202634 days

call OI 761 · put OI 1,737

Calls				Strike	Puts
Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI		Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI
—	2.32 / 6.35	—	1	13.5	—	0.00 / 0.40	—	—
—	3.05 / 4.10	—	—	14	—	0.00 / 0.08	—	5
—	3.05 / 3.55	—	—	14.5	0.11	0.00 / 0.26	25	125
—	2.33 / 3.25	—	2	15	0.16	0.05 / 0.32	125	126
—	1.83 / 3.15	—	—	15.5	—	0.10 / 0.58	—	6
—	0.97 / 2.26	—	1	16	—	0.15 / 0.47	—	605
—	1.73 / 2.07	—	22	16.5	0.56	0.43 / 0.73	201	22
1.64	1.22 / 1.70	1	200	17	0.72	0.68 / 0.95	7	202
1.34	1.22 / 1.51	1	1	17.5	1.05	0.92 / 1.17	100	6
1.24	1.02 / 1.26	6	241	18	—	1.18 / 1.53	—	620
1.14	0.88 / 1.13	3	2	18.5	—	1.51 / 2.12	—	4
0.95	0.60 / 0.98	8	23	19	—	1.95 / 2.36	—	—
—	0.60 / 0.86	—	—	19.5	2.38	2.28 / 2.77	15	—
0.73	0.40 / 0.77	1	55	20	—	2.62 / 3.10	—	16
0.60	0.49 / 0.60	1	6	21	—	3.00 / 4.00	—	—
—	0.30 / 0.65	—	46	21.5	—	3.00 / 4.70	—	—
—	0.33 / 0.52	—	161	22	—	4.45 / 4.90	—	—
A dash means the contract did not trade — not a price of zero.

Oct 16, 202641 days

call OI 18,877 · put OI 7,205

Calls				Strike	Puts
Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI		Last	Bid / Ask	Vol	OI
—	3.45 / 4.20	—	26	14	0.05	0.01 / 0.18	25	315
2.95	2.55 / 3.45	5	82	15	0.22	0.15 / 0.35	10	196
2.31	2.10 / 2.30	699	925	16	0.48	0.44 / 0.52	1,473	466
1.72	1.61 / 1.81	915	181	17	0.91	0.91 / 1.02	141	1,229
1.29	1.22 / 1.37	3,146	4,701	18	1.51	1.49 / 1.63	76	980
1.01	0.94 / 1.09	1,028	1,468	19	2.22	2.08 / 2.45	13	485
0.81	0.75 / 0.87	1,443	9,524	20	3.05	3.05 / 3.15	35	3,063
0.68	0.65 / 0.72	47	731	21	3.85	3.75 / 4.20	55	139
0.53	0.45 / 0.61	4,160	1,239	22	—	4.70 / 4.90	—	332
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.

More on VXX

VXX options score VXX gamma walls VXX max pain VXX IV rank VXX put/call ratio VXX options flow

Weekly options-market digest

Sundays. What moved this week, what catalysts and earnings drive next week, and which 5-pillar setups stand out.

Free. One email per week. Unsubscribe with one click.

Educational, not investment advice. Options involve risk. Open interest is reported with a one-session lag by OCC, so these levels describe positioning as of the last settled session, not live intraday flow.