Watch These 8 Huge Put 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.

• Deere & Company DE Feb 10th 105 Puts: 545 @ ASK $2.37: 755 traded vs 64 OI: Earnings 2/17 Before Open $104.92 Ref
• GNC Holdings Inc GNC Jun 7.5 Puts Sweep: 1636 @ ASK $0.60: 1636 traded vs 178 OI: Earnings 2/9 Before Open (est) $11.36 Ref
• Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd. (ADR) TSM Feb 30.0 Puts Sweep: 2920 @ ASK $1.00: 3016 traded vs 0 OI: Earnings 1/12 Before Open $30.06 Ref
• Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (USA) TSEM Feb 20.0 Puts Sweep: 504 @ ASK $0.90: 2301 traded vs 124 OI: Earnings 2/23 Before Open (est) $19.92 Ref
• Monster Beverage Corporation MNST Jan 13th 43.5 Puts: 1600 @ ASK $0.65: 1650 traded vs 14 OI: Earnings 2/23 After Close (est) $44.01 Ref
• Gap Inc GPS Jan19 15.0 Puts Sweep: 531 @ ASK $2.00: 531 traded vs 82 OI: Earnings 2/23 After Close $23.94 Ref
• Rent-A-Center Inc RCII Feb 10.0 Puts Sweep: 550 @ ASK $0.90: 5771 traded vs 3224 OI: Earnings 1/30 After Close (est) $10.96 Ref
• InvenSense Inc INVN Jun 12.0 Puts Sweep: 3000 @ ASK $0.25: 3200 traded vs 1136 OI: Earnings 1/26 After Close (est) $12.74 Ref