Watch These 3 Huge Put Purchases In Monday 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 Friday’s regular session.

• Calpine Corporation CPN Jan, 2019 $8 Puts Sweep (7) at the Ask: 9080 @ $0.551 vs 7047 OI; Ref=$13.87
• Himax Technologies, Inc. (ADR) HIMX Aug 18 $7 Puts at the Ask: 2499 @ $0.25 vs 2209 OI; Ref=$7.655
• TrueCar Inc TRUE Aug 18 $20 Puts at the Ask: 949 @ $0.75 vs 0 OI; Ref=$21.6