What the Options Market Tells Us About Coupang

High-rolling investors have positioned themselves bullish on Coupang CPNG, and it's important for retail traders to take note. \This activity came to our attention today through Benzinga's tracking of publicly available options data. The identities of these investors are uncertain, but such a significant move in CPNG often signals that someone has privileged information.

Today, Benzinga's options scanner spotted 12 options trades for Coupang. This is not a typical pattern.

The sentiment among these major traders is split, with 50% bullish and 33% bearish. Among all the options we identified, there was one put, amounting to $43,134, and 11 calls, totaling $969,614.

Projected Price Targets

After evaluating the trading volumes and Open Interest, it's evident that the major market movers are focusing on a price band between $15.5 and $25.0 for Coupang, spanning the last three months.

Volume & Open Interest Development

In today's trading context, the average open interest for options of Coupang stands at 6718.67, with a total volume reaching 6,703.00. The accompanying chart delineates the progression of both call and put option volume and open interest for high-value trades in Coupang, situated within the strike price corridor from $15.5 to $25.0, throughout the last 30 days.

Coupang Option Activity Analysis: Last 30 Days

Options Call Chart

Noteworthy Options Activity:

Symbol PUT/CALL Trade Type Sentiment Exp. Date Ask Bid Price Strike Price Total Trade Price Open Interest Volume
CPNG CALL SWEEP BULLISH 11/15/24 $1.87 $1.65 $1.65 $22.00 $292.5K 1.3K 1.7K
CPNG CALL TRADE BEARISH 08/09/24 $3.7 $2.5 $2.84 $18.00 $142.0K 1.0K 0
CPNG CALL SWEEP BULLISH 11/15/24 $4.35 $4.25 $4.35 $18.00 $126.1K 144 394
CPNG CALL SWEEP BEARISH 08/09/24 $3.8 $3.25 $3.21 $18.00 $80.3K 1.0K 740
CPNG CALL TRADE BEARISH 08/09/24 $3.8 $3.2 $3.2 $18.00 $76.8K 1.0K 500

About Coupang

Coupang Inc is an e-commerce company. It sells apparel, electronics, footwear, food products, furniture, nutritional supplements, and other products. Its segments include Product Commerce and Developing Offerings. The company generates maximum revenue from the Product Commerce segment. Product Commerce includes core retail (owned inventory) and marketplace offerings (third-party merchants) and Rocket Fresh, fresh grocery offering, as well as advertising products associated with these offerings.

Following our analysis of the options activities associated with Coupang, we pivot to a closer look at the company's own performance.

Present Market Standing of Coupang

  • Trading volume stands at 10,762,808, with CPNG's price up by 6.1%, positioned at $21.93.
  • RSI indicators show the stock to be may be approaching overbought.
  • Earnings announcement expected in 90 days.

Options are a riskier asset compared to just trading the stock, but they have higher profit potential. Serious options traders manage this risk by educating themselves daily, scaling in and out of trades, following more than one indicator, and following the markets closely.

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