Watch These 8 Huge Call Purchases In Friday 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 Thursday's regular session.

• Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (ADR) TEVA Jul16 51.5 Calls Sweep: 895 @ ASK $0.40: 2554 traded vs 152 OI: Earnings 8/4 $50.54 Ref
• Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc IONS Jul16 28.0 Calls Sweep: 576 @ ASK $0.35: 646 traded vs 11k OI: Earnings 8/2 $24.73 Ref
• General Electric Company GE Oct16 33.0 Calls: 87736 @ ASK $0.54: 104k traded vs 30k OI: Earnings 7/22 Before Open $31.80 Ref
• Sodastream International Ltd SODA Aug16 25.0 Calls: 2749 @ ASK $0.40: 3000 traded vs 0 OI: Earnings 8/3 $21.28 Ref
• Globalstar, Inc. GSAT GSAT Jul16 1.5 Calls: 782 @ ASK $0.10: 2015 traded vs 23k OI: $1.17 Ref
• SolarCity Corp SCTY Fri 7/8 30.0 Calls (Wkly): 1700 @ ASK $0.05: 1700 traded vs 12k OI: Earnings 8/3 $24.33 Ref
• Hologic, Inc. HOLX Sep16 35.0 Calls: 2000 @ ASK $1.95: 2000 traded vs 105 OI: Earnings 7/27 After Close $35.38 Ref
• Darden Restaurants, Inc. DRI Aug16 72.5 Calls Sweep: 1760 @ ASK $0.15: 1862 traded vs 51 OI: $62.32 Ref