10 Information Technology Stocks Whale Activity In Today's Session - Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD), Salesforce (NYSE:CRM), Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO), Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG)

This whale alert can help traders discover the next big trading opportunities.

Whales are entities with large sums of money and we track their transactions here at Benzinga on our options activity scanner.

Traders will search for circumstances when the market estimation of an option diverges heavily from its normal worth. High amounts of trading activity could push option prices to exaggerated or underestimated levels.

Here's the list of options activity happening in today's session:

Explanation

These itemized elaborations have been created using the accompanying table.

• For AMD (NASDAQ:AMD), we notice a call option trade that happens to be bearish, expiring in 3 day(s) on July 28, 2023. This event was a transfer of 200 contract(s) at a $113.00 strike. The total cost received by the writing party (or parties) was $42.6K, with a price of $213.0 per contract. There were 6633 open contracts at this strike prior to today, and today 16973 contract(s) were bought and sold.

Options Alert Terminology
- Call Contracts: The right to buy shares as indicated in the contract.
- Put Contracts: The right to sell shares as indicated in the contract.
- Expiration Date: When the contract expires. One must act on the contract by this date if one wants to use it.
- Premium/Option Price: The price of the contract.

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This whale alert can help traders discover the next big trading opportunities.

Whales are entities with large sums of money and we track their transactions here at Benzinga on our options activity scanner.

Here's the list of options activity happening in today's session:

Symbol	PUT/CALL	Trade Type	Sentiment	Exp. Date	Strike Price	Total Trade Price	Open Interest	Volume
AMD	CALL	TRADE	BEARISH	07/28/23	$113.00	$42.6K	6.6K	16.9K
NVDA	CALL	TRADE	NEUTRAL	07/28/23	$480.00	$26.5K	12.9K	16.4K
AAPL	PUT	TRADE	BULLISH	07/28/23	$195.00	$29.7K	22.8K	9.5K
MSFT	CALL	SWEEP	BEARISH	08/18/23	$375.00	$67.7K	15.8K	4.0K
PLTR	PUT	SWEEP	BEARISH	07/28/23	$17.00	$51.2K	7.2K	3.0K
DDOG	PUT	SWEEP	NEUTRAL	07/28/23	$110.00	$36.0K	823	3.0K
TENB	PUT	TRADE	BULLISH	08/18/23	$40.00	$27.0K	2.3K	2.5K
CSCO	CALL	TRADE	BEARISH	06/21/24	$57.50	$472.5K	5.4K	1.5K
CRM	PUT	SWEEP	BEARISH	01/19/24	$175.00	$160.0K	2.4K	1.1K
MDB	CALL	SWEEP	BULLISH	07/28/23	$450.00	$26.9K	253	959

Explanation

These itemized elaborations have been created using the accompanying table.

• Regarding NVDA (NASDAQ:NVDA), we observe a call option trade with neutral sentiment. It expires in 3 day(s) on July 28, 2023. Parties traded 100 contract(s) at a $480.00 strike. The total cost received by the writing party (or parties) was $26.5K, with a price of $265.0 per contract. There were 12940 open contracts at this strike prior to today, and today 16454 contract(s) were bought and sold.

• Regarding AAPL (NASDAQ:AAPL), we observe a put option trade with bullish sentiment. It expires in 3 day(s) on July 28, 2023. Parties traded 150 contract(s) at a $195.00 strike. The total cost received by the writing party (or parties) was $29.7K, with a price of $198.0 per contract. There were 22888 open contracts at this strike prior to today, and today 9555 contract(s) were bought and sold.

• For MSFT (NASDAQ:MSFT), we notice a call option sweep that happens to be bearish, expiring in 24 day(s) on August 18, 2023. This event was a transfer of 147 contract(s) at a $375.00 strike. This particular call needed to be split into 3 different trades to become filled. The total cost received by the writing party (or parties) was $67.7K, with a price of $460.0 per contract. There were 15861 open contracts at this strike prior to today, and today 4014 contract(s) were bought and sold.

• Regarding PLTR (NYSE:PLTR), we observe a put option sweep with bearish sentiment. It expires in 3 day(s) on July 28, 2023. Parties traded 854 contract(s) at a $17.00 strike. This particular put needed to be split into 22 different trades to become filled. The total cost received by the writing party (or parties) was $51.2K, with a price of $60.0 per contract. There were 7280 open contracts at this strike prior to today, and today 3061 contract(s) were bought and sold.

• For DDOG (NASDAQ:DDOG), we notice a put option sweep that happens to be neutral, expiring in 3 day(s) on July 28, 2023. This event was a transfer of 400 contract(s) at a $110.00 strike. This particular put needed to be split into 32 different trades to become filled. The total cost received by the writing party (or parties) was $36.0K, with a price of $90.0 per contract. There were 823 open contracts at this strike prior to today, and today 3053 contract(s) were bought and sold.

• Regarding TENB (NASDAQ:TENB), we observe a put option trade with bullish sentiment. It expires in 24 day(s) on August 18, 2023. Parties traded 200 contract(s) at a $40.00 strike. The total cost received by the writing party (or parties) was $27.0K, with a price of $135.0 per contract. There were 2396 open contracts at this strike prior to today, and today 2516 contract(s) were bought and sold.

• Regarding CSCO (NASDAQ:CSCO), we observe a call option trade with bearish sentiment. It expires in 332 day(s) on June 21, 2024. Parties traded 1500 contract(s) at a $57.50 strike. The total cost received by the writing party (or parties) was $472.5K, with a price of $315.0 per contract. There were 5407 open contracts at this strike prior to today, and today 1561 contract(s) were bought and sold.

• Regarding CRM (NYSE:CRM), we observe a put option sweep with bearish sentiment. It expires in 178 day(s) on January 19, 2024. Parties traded 485 contract(s) at a $175.00 strike. This particular put needed to be split into 24 different trades to become filled. The total cost received by the writing party (or parties) was $160.0K, with a price of $330.0 per contract. There were 2478 open contracts at this strike prior to today, and today 1142 contract(s) were bought and sold.

• For MDB (NASDAQ:MDB), we notice a call option sweep that happens to be bullish, expiring in 3 day(s) on July 28, 2023. This event was a transfer of 70 contract(s) at a $450.00 strike. This particular call needed to be split into 19 different trades to become filled. The total cost received by the writing party (or parties) was $26.9K, with a price of $385.0 per contract. There were 253 open contracts at this strike prior to today, and today 959 contract(s) were bought and sold.