Benzinga | Dec 28, 2021 10:30AM EST

NVIDIA Whale Trades Spotted

Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bearish stance on NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA).

And retail traders should know.

We noticed this today when the big position showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.

Whether this is an institution or just a wealthy individual, we don't know. But when something this big happens with NVDA, it often means somebody knows something is about to happen.

So how do we know what this whale just did?

Today, Benzinga's options scanner spotted 56 uncommon options trades for NVIDIA.

This isn't normal.

The overall sentiment of these big-money traders is split between 39% bullish and 60%, bearish.

Out of all of the special options we uncovered, 4 are puts, for a total amount of $316,289, and 52 are calls, for a total amount of $2,797,484.

What's The Price Target?

Taking into account the Volume and Open Interest on these contracts, it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from $290.0 to $330.0 for NVIDIA over the last 3 months.

Volume & Open Interest Development

In terms of liquidity and interest, the mean open interest for NVIDIA options trades today is 8317.53 with a total volume of 320,494.00.

In the following chart, we are able to follow the development of volume and open interest of call and put options for NVIDIA's big money trades within a strike price range of $290.0 to $330.0 over the last 30 days.

NVIDIA Option Volume And Open Interest Over Last 30 Days

Biggest Options Spotted:

Symbol PUT/ Trade Sentiment Exp. Strike Total Trade Open Volume CALL Type Date Price Price InterestNVDA CALL SWEEP NEUTRAL 12/31/ $310.00 $566.1K 14.6K 14.0K 21NVDA PUT SWEEP BEARISH 01/21/ $300.00 $180.0K 14.9K 243 22NVDA CALL SWEEP BULLISH 06/17/ $330.00 $119.5K 3.9K 6 22NVDA CALL SWEEP NEUTRAL 06/17/ $330.00 $118.4K 3.9K 76 22NVDA CALL SWEEP BEARISH 12/31/ $315.00 $94.7K 14.3K 4.8K 21

Where Is NVIDIA Standing Right Now?

* With a volume of 7,397,005, the price of NVDA is down -0.64% at $307.47.

* RSI indicators hint that the underlying stock is currently neutral between overbought and oversold.

* Next earnings are expected to be released in 57 days.

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