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.

• QUALCOMM, Inc. QCOM Apr 20 $45 Puts at the Bid: 3000 @ $2.041 vs 1676 OI; Ref=$50.5
• Uniti Group Inc UNIT Oct 20 $17.5 Puts Sweep (3) at the Ask: 2500 @ $0.95 vs 574 OI; Ref=$19.24
• Kroger Co KR Fri $21.5 Puts Sweep (39) at the Ask: 2149 @ $0.4 vs 382 OI; Ref=$22.385
• United States Steel Corporation X Jan, 2019 $25 Puts at the Bid: 2500 @ $4.3 vs 2347 OI; Ref=$27.275
• Trivago NV – ADR TRVG Jan 19 $10 Puts Sweep (2) at the Bid: 1000 @ $0.926 vs 7 OI; Ref=$11.39