United States Steel Whale Trades For January 28


20-Year Pro Trader Reveals His "MoneyLine"

Ditch your indicators and use the "MoneyLine". A simple line tells you when to buy and sell without the guesswork. It’s a line on a chart that’s helped Nic Chahine win 83% of his options buys. Here's how he does it.


A whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bearish stance on United States Steel.

Looking at options history for United States Steel (NYSE:X) we detected 24 strange trades.

If we consider the specifics of each trade, it is accurate to state that 29% of the investors opened trades with bullish expectations and 70% with bearish.

From the overall spotted trades, 7 are puts, for a total amount of $643,992 and 17, calls, for a total amount of $2,051,358.

What's The Price Target?

Taking into account the Volume and Open Interest on these contracts, it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from $13.0 to $24.0 for United States Steel over the last 3 months.

Volume & Open Interest Development

In terms of liquidity and interest, the mean open interest for United States Steel options trades today is 5115.0 with a total volume of 93,435.00.

In the following chart, we are able to follow the development of volume and open interest of call and put options for United States Steel's big money trades within a strike price range of $13.0 to $24.0 over the last 30 days.

United States Steel Option Volume And Open Interest Over Last 30 Days

Biggest Options Spotted:

SymbolPUT/CALLTrade TypeSentimentExp. DateStrike PriceTotal Trade PriceOpen InterestVolume
XCALLSWEEPBEARISH06/17/22$20.00$473.6K21.8K660
XCALLSWEEPBEARISH06/17/22$20.00$359.5K21.8K7.3K
XCALLSWEEPBEARISH06/17/22$20.00$243.8K21.8K22.9K
XPUTSWEEPBEARISH01/20/23$20.00$235.0K23.6K606
XPUTTRADEBEARISH01/19/24$18.00$193.9K5.4K400

Where Is United States Steel Standing Right Now?

  • With a volume of 29,663,729, the price of X is up 4.06% at $19.34.
  • RSI indicators hint that the underlying stock may be approaching oversold.
  • Next earnings are expected to be released in 31 days.

What The Experts Say On United States Steel:

  • Wolfe Research downgraded its action to Underperform with a price target of $24

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20-Year Pro Trader Reveals His "MoneyLine"

Ditch your indicators and use the "MoneyLine". A simple line tells you when to buy and sell without the guesswork. It’s a line on a chart that’s helped Nic Chahine win 83% of his options buys. Here's how he does it.


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