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Financial giants have made a conspicuous bullish move on Costco Wholesale. Our analysis of options history for Costco Wholesale COST revealed 58 unusual trades.Delving into the details, we found 43% of traders were bullish, while 36% showed bearish tendencies. Out of all the trades we spotted, 24 were puts, with a value of $1,772,904, and 34 were calls, valued at $3,073,663.Predicted Price RangeAnalyzing the Volume and Open Interest in these contracts, it seems that the big players have been eyeing a price ...

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Enphase Energy Inc. (Symbol: ENPH), where a total volume of 33,199 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 3.3 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 47.8% of ENPH's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 6.9 million shares. Particularly high ...

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in TPG RE Finance Trust Inc (Symbol: TRTX), where a total of 44,138 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 4.4 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 694.6% of TRTX's average daily trading volume over the past month of 635,445 shares. Particularly high volume was seen for the $11 strike call option expiring January 16, 2026 , with 22,060 contracts trading so far today, repres ...

Investors with a lot of money to spend have taken a bullish stance on Adobe ADBE.And retail traders should know.We noticed this today when the positions showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.Whether these are institutions or just wealthy individuals, we don't know. But when something this big happens with ADBE, it often means somebody knows something is about to happen.Today, Benzinga's options scanner spotted 8 options trades for Adobe.This isn't normal.The overall ...

Back on all morning movers with another look at Oracle. That stock is higher in the pre-market, adding to the more than 30% rally we've already seen this month. The US and China making progress on trade talks with China over the operations of Tik Tok.CBS News citing Trump administration sources that Oracle could play a key role in any deal. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson saying today that President Trump's willingness to let Tik Tok go dark motivated China to make a deal. Time now for Options Corner.joinin ...

Financial giants have made a conspicuous bearish move on Airbnb. Our analysis of options history for Airbnb ABNB revealed 26 unusual trades.Delving into the details, we found 26% of traders were bullish, while 53% showed bearish tendencies. Out of all the trades we spotted, 11 were puts, with a value of $437,905, and 15 were calls, valued at $731,019.Expected Price MovementsAfter evaluating the trading volumes and Open Interest, it's evident that the major market movers are focusing on a price band between ...

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Uber Technologies Inc (Symbol: UBER), where a total volume of 108,241 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 10.8 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 70.8% of UBER's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 15.3 million shares. Particularly high ...

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Mosaic Co (Symbol: MOS), where a total of 17,376 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 1.7 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 41.7% of MOS's average daily trading volume over the past month of 4.2 million shares. Especially high volume was seen for the $35.50 strike call option expiring September 19, 2025 , with 8,006 contracts trading so far today, representing approximat ...

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in DaVita Inc (Symbol: DVA), where a total volume of 3,340 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 334,000 underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 47.9% of DVA's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 697,095 shares. Especially high volume was seen for the $13 ...