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Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bearish stance on JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM).
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 JPM, 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 29 uncommon options trades for JPMorgan Chase.
This isn't normal.
The overall sentiment of these big-money traders is split between 41% bullish and 58%, bearish.
Out of all of the special options we uncovered, 18 are puts, for a total amount of $2,186,825, and 11 are calls, for a total amount of $425,533.
Taking into account the Volume and Open Interest on these contracts, it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from $85.0 to $155.0 for JPMorgan Chase over the last 3 months.
In terms of liquidity and interest, the mean open interest for JPMorgan Chase options trades today is 5353.05 with a total volume of 11,986.00.
In the following chart, we are able to follow the development of volume and open interest of call and put options for JPMorgan Chase's big money trades within a strike price range of $85.0 to $155.0 over the last 30 days.
Symbol | PUT/CALL | Trade Type | Sentiment | Exp. Date | Strike Price | Total Trade Price | Open Interest | Volume |
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JPM | PUT | TRADE | NEUTRAL | 03/17/23 | $155.00 | $1.0M | 1 | 260 |
JPM | PUT | TRADE | BEARISH | 01/20/23 | $130.00 | $357.9K | 13.2K | 200 |
JPM | PUT | SWEEP | BEARISH | 11/18/22 | $115.00 | $185.8K | 4.6K | 295 |
JPM | PUT | SWEEP | BEARISH | 09/23/22 | $113.00 | $67.1K | 604 | 797 |
JPM | CALL | SWEEP | BEARISH | 01/20/23 | $120.00 | $58.2K | 11.6K | 626 |
Options are a riskier asset compared to just trading the stock, but they have higher profit potential. Serious options traders manage this risk by educating themselves daily, scaling in and out of trades, following more than one indicator, and following the markets closely.
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