Decoding Amazon.com's Options Activity: What's the Big Picture?

Whales with a lot of money to spend have taken a noticeably bullish stance on Amazon.com.

Looking at options history for Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) we detected 55 trades.

If we consider the specifics of each trade, it is accurate to state that 50% of the investors opened trades with bullish expectations and 25% with bearish.

From the overall spotted trades, 8 are puts, for a total amount of $430,587 and 47, calls, for a total amount of $2,576,114.

Projected Price Targets

Taking into account the Volume and Open Interest on these contracts, it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from $185.0 to $260.0 for Amazon.com over the last 3 months.

Volume & Open Interest Trends

In terms of liquidity and interest, the mean open interest for Amazon.com options trades today is 11736.0 with a total volume of 38,490.00.

In the following chart, we are able to follow the development of volume and open interest of call and put options for Amazon.com's big money trades within a strike price range of $185.0 to $260.0 over the last 30 days.

Amazon.com Call and Put Volume: 30-Day Overview

Options Call Chart

Biggest Options Spotted:

Symbol PUT/CALL Trade Type Sentiment Exp. Date Ask Bid Price Strike Price Total Trade Price Open Interest Volume
AMZN CALL SWEEP NEUTRAL 11/21/25 $7.2 $7.1 $7.15 $235.00 $257.6K 28.5K 277
AMZN CALL SWEEP NEUTRAL 11/21/25 $11.75 $11.6 $11.68 $225.00 $210.2K 19.5K 412
AMZN CALL SWEEP NEUTRAL 11/21/25 $9.3 $9.15 $9.22 $230.00 $166.1K 32.5K 648
AMZN CALL SWEEP BULLISH 01/16/26 $10.5 $10.45 $10.5 $240.00 $141.7K 35.3K 1.0K
AMZN PUT SWEEP NEUTRAL 11/07/25 $1.56 $1.55 $1.55 $205.00 $103.0K 2.5K 3.1K

About Amazon.com

Amazon is the leading online retailer and marketplace for third party sellers. Retail related revenue represents approximately 75% of total, followed by Amazon Web Services' cloud computing, storage, database, and other offerings (15%), advertising services (5% to 10%), and other the remainder. International segments constitute 25% to 30% of Amazon's non-AWS sales, led by Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan.

Where Is Amazon.com Standing Right Now?

  • With a volume of 11,479,869, the price of AMZN is down -0.18% at $226.56.
  • RSI indicators hint that the underlying stock may be approaching overbought.
  • Next earnings are expected to be released in 2 days.

What Analysts Are Saying About Amazon.com

A total of 5 professional analysts have given their take on this stock in the last 30 days, setting an average price target of $280.8.

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