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

• Twitter Inc TWTR Nov 17 $18 Calls Sweep (13) at the Ask: 2500 @ $0.75 vs 1006 OI; Ref=$16.84
• QEP Resources Inc QEP Oct 20 $8 Calls Sweep (41) at the Ask: 2177 @ $0.851 vs 832 OI; Ref=$8.59
• Facebook Inc FB Oct 13 $175 Calls Sweep (20) at the Ask: 2000 @ $0.741 vs 1147 OI; Ref=$168.65
• Box Inc BOX Nov 17 $21 Calls Sweep (22) at the Ask: 1000 @ $0.3 vs 13 OI; Ref=$18.97
• AbbVie Inc ABBV Oct 20 $83 Calls Sweep (33) at the Ask: 717 @ $5.294 vs 38 OI; Ref=$88.01
• Health Insurance Innovations Inc HIIQ Oct 20 $15 Calls Sweep (16) at the Ask: 569 @ $1.2 vs 6 OI; Ref=$13.8213
• Texas Instruments Incorporated TXN Oct 13 $89 Calls Sweep (24) at the Ask: 522 @ $1.41 vs 20 OI; Ref=$89.37
• TrueCar Inc TRUE Nov 17 $14 Calls Sweep (18) at the Ask: 500 @ $1.698 vs 0 OI; Ref=$14.915