Watch These 8 Huge Call Purchases In Monday 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 Friday's regular session.

• Twitter Inc TWTR Mar 20.0 Calls: 4128 @ ASK $0.56: 6287 traded vs 42k OI: Earnings 2/9 Before Open $17.56 Ref
• Charter Communications, Inc. CHTR Mar 385 Calls: 1243 @ ASK $0.80: 1243 traded vs 20 OI: Earnings 2/16 Before Open $328.64 Ref
• PepsiCo, Inc. PEP Feb 108 Calls Sweep: 1000 @ ASK $0.357: 3010 traded vs 238 OI: Earnings 2/15 Before Open $105.65 Ref
• NRG Energy Inc NRG Mar 18.0 Calls: 10000 @ ASK $0.95: 19k traded vs 247 OI: Earnings 2/28 Before Open $17.25 Ref
• Viacom, Inc. VIAB Feb 24th 42.5 Calls Sweep: 1029 @ ASK $1.15: 1033 traded vs 64 OI: Earnings 2/9 Before Open $41.89 Ref
• GoPro Inc GPRO Feb 15.0 Calls: 2000 @ ASK $0.01: 2003 traded vs 4884 OI: $9.61 Ref
• TASER International, Inc. TASR Mar 3rd 26.0 Calls Sweep: 741 @ ASK $1.442: 762 traded vs 16 OI: Earnings 2/28 Unspecified (est) $26.13 Ref
• Ascena Retail Group Inc ASNA Sep17 6.0 Calls: 9500 @ ASK $0.60: 10k traded vs 10 OI: Earnings 2/28 After Close (est) $4.99 Ref