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.

• Violin Memory Inc VMEM Jul16 1.0 Calls Sweep: 1965 @ ASK $0.10: 2550 traded vs 250 OI: $0.81 Ref
• Lifelock Inc LOCK Jul16 16.0 Calls: 1656 @ ASK $0.35: 5234 traded vs 80 OI: Earnings 8/3 $14.78 Ref
• Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (USA) LGF Jun16 21.0 Calls Sweep: 510 @ ASK $1.00: 582 traded vs 6422 OI: Earnings 8/4 $21.95 Ref
• Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (ADR) TEVA Sep16 55.0 Calls: 9600 @ ASK $2.20: 11k traded vs 14k OI: Earnings 8/4 $52.72 Ref
• PTC Inc PTC Oct16 40.0 Calls: 852 @ ASK $1.70: 1000 traded vs 0 OI: Earnings 8/3 $38.40 Ref
• Whole Foods Market, Inc. WFM Aug16 35.0 Calls Sweep: 1034 @ ASK $0.58: 1387 traded vs 5604 OI: Earnings 8/3 $31.36 Ref
• Twitter Inc TWTR Fri 6/24 17.0 Calls (Wkly): 3000 @ ASK $0.38: 3880 traded vs 758 OI: Earnings 7/26 $16.31 Ref
• SouFun Holdings Ltd SFUN Aug16 5.0 Calls: 2934 @ ASK $0.65: 2934 traded vs 19k OI: Earnings 8/5 $5.08 Ref