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

• U.S. Silica Holdings Inc SLCA Oct 20 $34 Calls Sweep (11) at the Ask: 1000 @ $0.55 vs 492 OI; Ref=$30.46
• Micron Technology, Inc. MU Oct 20 $41.5 Calls Sweep (31) at the Ask: 4589 @ $0.381 vs 3 OI; Ref=$35.829
• Apple Inc. AAPL Fri $152.5 Calls Sweep (9) at the Ask: 1692 @ $3.0 vs 797 OI; Ref=$155.0
• Kraft Heinz Co KHC Nov 17 $82.5 Calls at the Ask: 1450 @ $1.351 vs 67 OI; Ref=$79.84
• Sarepta Therapeutics Inc SRPT Oct 20 $53 Calls Sweep (4) at the Bid: 1000 @ $0.7 vs 1 OI; Ref=$46.56
• Juno Therapeutics Inc JUNO Nov 17 $52.5 Calls Sweep (31) at the Ask: 666 @ $2.044 vs 107 OI; Ref=$45.26
• Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc LL Oct 20 $41 Calls Sweep (3) at the Ask: 653 @ $0.551 vs 78 OI; Ref=$38.032
• Alcoa Corp AA Oct 27 $50 Calls Sweep (2) at the Ask: 500 @ $1.45 vs 0 OI; Ref=$47.54