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Nucor Corp (NUE) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

NUE is Nucor Corp, a Materials name the model ranks every trading day. The options figures are from the close on 28 Sep 2026. The model's figures are from 25 Sep 2026, one trading day behind the latest, as the Free plan shows them. Every model figure is paper trading.

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At a glance

Figure	Value	Date
IV rank	80 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	37.2%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	8.7% down, 8.0% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	250 and 230	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view neutral	25 Sep
Last close	244.49	28 Sep
Next report	26 Oct 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

NUE's IV rank is 80 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	80 of 100
At the money IV	37.2%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.58
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	20,900 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	12,100 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Tight, 8.0% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among NUE's own weekly readings, 0 the lowest and 100 the highest.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Priced Range

On 28 Sep 2026, NUE options priced a move of 8.7 percent down and 8.0 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	8.7%	8.0%	223.29 to 264.09
20 Nov 2026	53	14.8%	14.7%	208.19 to 280.39
18 Dec 2026	81	17.2%	18.1%	202.49 to 288.79
15 Jan 2027	109	20.1%	22.0%	195.29 to 298.29
19 Mar 2027	172	26.3%	27.3%	180.09 to 311.19
16 Apr 2027	200	28.7%	29.8%	174.39 to 317.29

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 244.49, as the option prices imply it.

A priced move restates option prices at the close and says nothing certain about where the price goes.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Gamma Map

On 28 Sep 2026, NUE's call wall is the 250 strike and its put wall is the 230 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	250
Put wall, most open put gamma	230
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	$2.37 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$13.76 million
Close	244.49

Dollar gamma is stated for a one percent move in the price.

Net is calls minus puts under the standard convention, not a record of who holds the contracts.

Net gamma changes sign at 5 strikes, so no single flip strike is named.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Volatility History

On 28 Sep 2026, NUE's at the money IV is 37.2 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 34.9 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	37.2%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	34.9%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	35.3%
IV against its own weekly record	In the middle
Weekly readings on record	865, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	29.0% of 252 weeks

Realized volatility is worked out from the daily closes the desk holds, not from the option chain.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Volatility Weather

On 28 Sep 2026, NUE's at the money IV runs from 37.2 percent at 18 days to 38.7 percent at 200 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	37.2%
53	39.3%
81	39.4%
109	38.6%
172	38.4%
200	38.7%

Far expiries price more volatility than near ones, an upward sloping term structure.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Volatility Smile

On 28 Sep 2026, at the 53 day expiry, NUE's IV ten percent below the price sits 2.2 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	41.5%	+2.2 points
At the money	39.3%	0.0 points
10% above the price	38.8%	-0.5 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, NUE's surface spans 6 expiries out to 200 days, with IV from 36.1 to 42.5 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	6
Nearest expiry	16 Oct 2026, 18 days
Farthest expiry	16 Apr 2027, 200 days
Points within 10% of the price, 7 days out or more	24
Lowest IV among them	36.1%
Highest IV among them	42.5%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, NUE has 6 captured expiries, from 16 Oct 2026 to 16 Apr 2027.

Expiry	Days	At the money IV	Call open interest	Put open interest
16 Oct 2026	18	37.2%	4,901	4,033
20 Nov 2026	53	39.3%	322	243
18 Dec 2026	81	39.4%	3,303	2,572
15 Jan 2027	109	38.6%	10,282	4,429
19 Mar 2027	172	38.4%	1,927	708
16 Apr 2027	200	38.7%	201	83

Open interest is summed over the strikes captured near the price on each expiry.

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, NUE's largest open interest sits at the 250 strike, with 4,274 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
250	3,084	1,190	4,274
230	1,291	2,020	3,311
240	896	1,602	2,498
260	1,678	646	2,324
280	2,105	36	2,141
150	1,460	573	2,033

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, NUE's at the money IV moved from 36.1 percent to 37.2 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	36.1%	37.2%	+1.1 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	32,796	33,004	+208
Put/call ratio, open interest	0.58	0.58	-0.00

Open interest changes cannot identify buyers or sellers.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Changed Hands

On 28 Sep 2026, 3,016 NUE option contracts traded, 0.8 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	1,287
Puts traded	1,729
Against its recent average	0.8 times
Busier than	2 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	45,885 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.07
Unusual volume flag	No

Traded volume and open interest are shown side by side and never combined. Open interest changes cannot identify buyers or sellers.

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Positioning Replay

The replay holds 33 trading days of NUE's option positioning, from 11 Aug 2026 to 28 Sep 2026.

Date	Close	Net dollar gamma	Top call strike	Top put strike
11 Aug 2026	271.95	$8.09 million	280	260
21 Sep 2026	242.40	$2.08 million	250	240
28 Sep 2026	244.49	$2.37 million	250	230

Each frame restates one nightly capture. Net is calls minus puts, a convention, not who holds the contracts.

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Read-out

On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of NUE was neutral, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Neutral at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	250.69, the swing high of 24 Sep 2026
Level below the close	241.21, the swing low of 22 Sep 2026
Strategy family	Iron condor (sell both sides, defined risk)
Price target	None. The desk has no price model.

The levels are prices the shares turned at on the chart, with the date of each.

Paper trading. The model's figures from 25 Sep 2026, one trading day behind, as the Free plan shows them.

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Rank by Timeframe

On 25 Sep 2026 NUE sat at the 45th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	74 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	35 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	45 of 100	Neutral

100 is the top of the ranking. A name in the middle three fifths is neutral.

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Timeframe Agreement

On 25 Sep 2026 NUE's near timeframes were neutral and its long timeframe was neutral, paper trading.

Group	Timeframes	Side	On that side
Near	10 day, 20 day	Neutral	0 of 2
Long	45 day	Neutral	0 of 1

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 NUE had carried no signal for at least 18 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	45 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	21 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	29 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	22 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	53 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	54 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	31 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	20 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 35 of 62 Materials names were bullish and 11 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Materials	62	35	11	16

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Price Chart

NUE closed at 244.49 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	244.49
Change over 5 trading days	+0.9%
Change over 21 trading days	-3.1%
Change over 63 trading days	+7.0%
Change over 252 trading days	+81.4%
52 week high	280.11
52 week low	131.32
20 day moving average	254.03
50 day moving average	255.70
200 day moving average	213.22
RSI, 14 days	42

Worked out from the desk's own daily bars, adjusted for share splits.

From the daily bars through 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Earnings Radar

NUE reports next on 26 Oct 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

Figure	Value
Next report	26 Oct 2026, after the close
Date	Confirmed by the company
Move after the report of 27 Jul 2026	+7.2%
Move after the report of 28 Apr 2026	-1.2%
Move after the report of 26 Jan 2026	-2.3%
Move after the report of 28 Apr 2025	+1.9%

Earnings calendar as of 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 61.2 percent of NUE's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	61.2%
Five day average	51.8%
52 week median	53.2%

Short sale volume counts trades marked short at the covered venues, mostly off exchange. It is not the same as short interest.

Short volume as of 25 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Seasonality

In the 23 Septembers on record, NUE's average change was minus 2.4 percent, and it rose in 52.2 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-2.4%	+1.3%	52.2%	23
October	+4.7%	+4.3%	69.6%	23
November	+5.2%	+2.6%	65.2%	23

Each figure is a month end to month end change in past years. A past month says nothing certain about the next one.

Monthly history through 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Headlines

The desk's news feeds carried 4 headlines naming NUE in the 3 days to 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Headlines in the window	4
Latest	28 Sep 2026

The titles are in the Headlines window, with the time each was published.

Headlines as of 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Questions

What is NUE's IV rank?: NUE's IV rank is 80 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are NUE options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, NUE options priced a move of 8.7 percent down and 8.0 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are NUE's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, NUE's call wall is the 250 strike and its put wall is the 230 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of NUE on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of NUE was neutral, paper trading.
When does NUE report earnings next?: NUE reports next on 26 Oct 2026, a date confirmed by the company.

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