Watch These 7 Huge Call Purchases In Wednesday 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 Tuesday's regular session.

• Nucor Corporation NUE Dec 30th 60.0 Calls: 2300 @ ASK $2.00: 2315 traded vs 86 OI: Earnings 1/26 Before Open (est) $61.96 Ref
• LendingClub Corp LC Jan 5.5 Calls Sweep: 918 @ ASK $0.35: 1051 traded vs 8158 OI: Earnings 2/13 Before Open (est) $5.52 Ref
• HCA Holdings Inc HCA Feb 80.0 Calls Sweep: 819 @ ASK $1.15: 847 traded vs 69 OI: Earnings 1/26 Before Open (est) $74.44 Ref
• Gap Inc GPS Dec 30th 23.5 Calls Sweep: 973 @ ASK $0.16: 1215 traded vs 122 OI: Earnings 2/23 After Close $22.98 Ref
• Twitter Inc TWTR Jan 22.0 Calls: 4000 @ ASK $0.06: 4020 traded vs 41k OI: Earnings 2/8 Before Open (est) $16.74 Ref
• Chemours Co CC Feb 15.0 Calls Sweep: 500 @ ASK $8.296: 500 traded vs 0 OI: Earnings 2/21 After Close (est) $22.74 Ref
• Fitbit Inc FIT Aug17 9.0 Calls Sweep: 500 @ ASK $1.25: 521 traded vs 1269 OI: Earnings 2/22 After Close (est) $7.79 Ref