Booking Holdings Unusual Options Activity For April 04

A whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bearish stance on Booking Holdings.

Looking at options history for Booking Holdings BKNG we detected 22 strange trades.

If we consider the specifics of each trade, it is accurate to state that 31% of the investors opened trades with bullish expectations and 68% with bearish.

From the overall spotted trades, 13 are puts, for a total amount of $975,399 and 9, calls, for a total amount of $362,450.

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 $2110.0 to $3500.0 for Booking Holdings over the last 3 months.

Volume & Open Interest Development

In terms of liquidity and interest, the mean open interest for Booking Holdings options trades today is 24.36 with a total volume of 67.00.

In the following chart, we are able to follow the development of volume and open interest of call and put options for Booking Holdings's big money trades within a strike price range of $2110.0 to $3500.0 over the last 30 days.

Booking Holdings Option Volume And Open Interest Over Last 30 Days

Options Call Chart

Biggest Options Spotted:

Symbol PUT/CALL Trade Type Sentiment Exp. Date Strike Price Total Trade Price Open Interest Volume
BKNG PUT TRADE NEUTRAL 01/19/24 $3500.00 $170.2K 3 3
BKNG PUT TRADE NEUTRAL 10/20/23 $3300.00 $129.6K 0 2
BKNG PUT TRADE NEUTRAL 06/21/24 $3000.00 $100.2K 24 2
BKNG PUT TRADE NEUTRAL 06/21/24 $3000.00 $99.3K 24 16
BKNG PUT TRADE BULLISH 01/19/24 $3400.00 $75.3K 7 2

Where Is Booking Holdings Standing Right Now?

  • With a volume of 48,729, the price of BKNG is down -0.41% at $2654.31.
  • RSI indicators hint that the underlying stock may be approaching overbought.
  • Next earnings are expected to be released in 29 days.

What The Experts Say On Booking Holdings:

  • JMP Securities downgraded its action to Market Outperform with a price target of $2750
  • Tigress Financial has decided to maintain their Strong Buy rating on Booking Holdings, which currently sits at a price target of $3430.

Options are a riskier asset compared to just trading the stock, but they have higher profit potential. Serious options traders manage this risk by educating themselves daily, scaling in and out of trades, following more than one indicator, and following the markets closely.

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