Watch These 5 Huge Put Purchases In Thursday Trade

Benzinga's newsdesk monitors options activity to notice unusual patterns. These large volume (and often out of the money) trades were initially published intraday in Benzinga Professional . These trades were placed during Wednesday’s regular session.

• NVIDIA Corporation NVDA Dec16 95.0 Puts: 2542 @ ASK $0.80: 3699 traded vs 678 OI: Earnings 2/15 After Close (est) $96.13 Ref
• Radius Health Inc RDUS Dec16 40.0 Puts Sweep: 588 @ ASK $1.60: 598 traded vs 2720 OI: Earnings 2/23 Before Open (est) $40.90 Ref
• Exelixis, Inc. EXEL Jan17 16.0 Puts Sweep: 2644 @ ASK $1.35: 2654 traded vs 265 OI: Earnings 2/28 After Close (est) $16.29 Ref
• United Parcel Service, Inc. UPS 12/30 112 Puts (Wkly) Sweep: 732 @ ASK $0.37: 733 traded vs 72 OI: Earnings 1/31 Before Open $117.94 Ref
• Pfizer Inc. PFE Feb $32 Put; 4000 @Bid @$0.86; Ref=$32.86