Watch These 7 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.

• Whiting Petroleum Corp WLL Dec16 12.0 Calls Sweep: 9546 @ ASK $0.249: 16k traded vs 4545 OI: Earnings 2/22 After Close (est) $10.14 Ref
• Fitbit Inc FIT Fri 12/2 9.0 Calls (Wkly) Sweep: 1500 @ ASK $0.25: 7012 traded vs 1948 OI: Earnings 2/22 After Close (est) $8.59 Ref
• E I Du Pont De Nemours And Co DD Jan17 75.0 Calls: 1150 @ ASK $0.61: 1267 traded vs 4219 OI: Earnings 1/24 Before Open $70.54 Ref
• TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. AMTD May17 41.0 Calls Sweep: 500 @ ASK $2.35: 500 traded vs 10 OI: Earnings 1/18 Before Open (est) $40.03 Ref
• Lowe's Companies, Inc. LOW Jan17 75.0 Calls Sweep: 661 @ ASK $0.88: 1369 traded vs 5923 OI: Earnings 2/22 Before Open (est) $71.73 Ref
• Twitter Inc TWTR Dec16 23.0 Calls Sweep: 9623 @ ASK $0.143: 15k traded vs 17k OI: Earnings 2/8 Before Open (est) $18.66 Ref
• Depomed Inc DEPO Jan17 24.0 Calls Sweep: 830 @ Above Ask! $0.84: 1021 traded vs 1 OI: Earnings 2/21 After Close (est) $20.09 Ref