Watch These 7 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.

• Apple Inc. AAPL Oct16 130 Calls Sweep: 16380 @ Above Ask! $0.28: 63k traded vs 31k OI: Earnings 10/25 $110.93 Ref
• Penn National Gaming, Inc PENN Sep16 13.0 Calls Sweep: 1016 @ ASK $0.30: 2016 traded vs 0 OI: Earnings 10/27 $12.95 Ref
• Lululemon Athletica inc. LULU Fri 9/23 67.0 Calls (Wkly) Sweep: 1179 @ ASK $1.43: 1182 traded vs 119 OI: $66.87 Ref
• Wells Fargo & Co WFC Nov16 47.0 Calls: 8037 @ ASK $1.50: 11k traded vs 778 OI: Earnings 10/14 $46.59 Ref
• Fred's, Inc. FRED Oct16 10.0 Calls Sweep: 522 @ ASK $0.50: 526 traded vs 8 OI: $9.72 Ref
• NRG Energy Inc NRG Jan17 11.0 Calls Sweep: 1686 @ ASK $1.30: 1686 traded vs 6 OI: Earnings 11/2 $10.91 Ref
• AstraZeneca plc (ADR) AZN Apr17 32.5 Calls: 500 @ ASK $2.80: 2000 traded vs 53 OI: Earnings 11/3 $33.21 Ref