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Investors with a lot of money to spend have taken a bullish stance on Alibaba Gr Holding (NYSE:BABA).
And retail traders should know.
We noticed this today when the trades 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 BABA, it often means somebody knows something is about to happen.
So how do we know what these investors just did?
Today, Benzinga's options scanner spotted 61 uncommon options trades for Alibaba Gr Holding.
This isn't normal.
The overall sentiment of these big-money traders is split between 50% bullish and 36%, bearish.
Out of all of the special options we uncovered, 11 are puts, for a total amount of $2,737,229, and 50 are calls, for a total amount of $3,428,154.
Taking into account the Volume and Open Interest on these contracts, it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from $40.0 to $120.0 for Alibaba Gr Holding over the last 3 months.
In terms of liquidity and interest, the mean open interest for Alibaba Gr Holding options trades today is 8936.03 with a total volume of 67,399.00.
In the following chart, we are able to follow the development of volume and open interest of call and put options for Alibaba Gr Holding's big money trades within a strike price range of $40.0 to $120.0 over the last 30 days.
Symbol | PUT/CALL | Trade Type | Sentiment | Exp. Date | Ask | Bid | Price | Strike Price | Total Trade Price | Open Interest | Volume |
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BABA | PUT | TRADE | BULLISH | 12/20/24 | $7.6 | $7.45 | $7.45 | $80.00 | $2.2M | 6.1K | 3.0K |
BABA | CALL | SWEEP | BULLISH | 08/16/24 | $5.8 | $5.75 | $5.75 | $80.00 | $353.0K | 2.7K | 3.2K |
BABA | CALL | SWEEP | NEUTRAL | 08/16/24 | $5.8 | $5.75 | $5.75 | $80.00 | $282.9K | 2.7K | 4.5K |
BABA | CALL | SWEEP | BEARISH | 12/19/25 | $16.95 | $16.0 | $16.0 | $85.00 | $128.0K | 792 | 102 |
BABA | PUT | SWEEP | BEARISH | 06/21/24 | $10.55 | $10.4 | $10.5 | $90.00 | $123.9K | 7.3K | 172 |
Alibaba is the world's largest online and mobile commerce company as measured by gross merchandise volume. It operates China's online marketplaces, including Taobao (consumer-to-consumer) and Tmall (business-to-consumer). The China commerce retail division is the most valuable cash flow-generating business at Alibaba. Additional revenue sources include China commerce wholesale, international commerce retail/wholesale, local consumer services, cloud computing, digital media and entertainment platforms, Cainiao logistics services, and innovation initiatives/other.
In light of the recent options history for Alibaba Gr Holding, it's now appropriate to focus on the company itself. We aim to explore its current performance.
Over the past month, 5 industry analysts have shared their insights on this stock, proposing an average target price of $111.0.
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