Watch These 8 Huge Call 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.

• Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (USA) TSEM: Sep 15 $30 Calls Sweep (37) at the Ask: 2329 @ $0.25 vs 14 OI; Ref=$27.66
• DISH Network Corp DISH: Sep 8 $60 Calls Sweep (3) at the Ask: 2000 @ $0.594 vs 922 OI; Ref=$57.74
• Oclaro Inc OCLR: Fri $8 Calls Sweep (21) at the Ask: 1968 @ $0.35 vs 321 OI; Ref=$8.23
• American International Group Inc AIG: Oct 20 $60 Calls at the Bid: 1089 @ $1.75 vs 344 OI; Ref=$60.82
• TG Therapeutics Inc TGTX: Jan 19 $18 Calls Sweep (7) at the Ask: 1000 @ $0.899 vs 0 OI; Ref=$11.45
• Tiffany & Co. TIF: Sep 8 $89.5 Calls Sweep (14) at the Ask: 800 @ $3.05 vs 75 OI; Ref=$88.94
• Palo Alto Networks Inc PANW: Sep 15 $131 Calls Sweep (3) at the Bid: 510 @ $7.5 vs 23 OI; Ref=$131.155
• Snap Inc SNAP: Nov 17 $14 Calls at the Bid: 500 @ $2.141 vs 49 OI; Ref=$14.8499