Watch These 8 Huge Call Purchases In Wednesday 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 Tuesday's regular session.

• PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT) Mar 18.0 Calls Sweep: 853 @ ASK $2.091: 883 traded vs 99 OI: Earnings 2/28 After Close (est) $14.70 Ref
• Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST) Feb 70.0 Calls: 2300 @ ASK $0.35: 2500 traded vs 382 OI: Earnings 2/28 Before Open $60.40 Ref
• TrueCar Inc (NASDAQ: TRUE) Apr 12.5 Calls Sweep: 649 @ ASK $1.20: 1149 traded vs 65k OI: Earnings 2/16 After Close (est) $12.78 Ref
• Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) Jan 65.0 Calls Sweep: 1043 @ ASK $0.16: 1100 traded vs 4134 OI: Earnings 2/8 After Close $64.33 Ref
• Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) Mar 20.0 Calls: 3000 @ ASK $0.50: 7790 traded vs 34k OI: Earnings 2/9 Before Open $16.98 Ref
• Tesoro Corporation (NYSE: TSO) Jan 100 Calls: 500 @ ASK $0.02: 18k traded vs 1259 OI: Earnings 2/6 After Close $82.18 Ref
• Pandora Media Inc (NYSE: P) Jan 13.0 Calls Sweep: 1027 @ ASK $0.18: 1229 traded vs 13k OI: Earnings 2/9 After Close $12.81 Ref
• Weatherford International Plc (NYSE: WFT) Mar 6.0 Calls Sweep: 1742 @ ASK $0.414: 3163 traded vs 48k OI: Earnings 2/1 After Close $5.35 Ref