United Airlines Holdings Unusual Options Activity For December 12

A whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bullish stance on United Airlines Holdings.

Looking at options history for United Airlines Holdings UAL we detected 10 strange trades.

If we consider the specifics of each trade, it is accurate to state that 50% of the investors opened trades with bullish expectations and 50% with bearish.

From the overall spotted trades, 2 are puts, for a total amount of $130,259 and 8, calls, for a total amount of $534,891.

What's The Price Target?

Taking into account the Volume and Open Interest on these contracts, it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from $40.0 to $45.0 for United Airlines Holdings over the last 3 months.

Volume & Open Interest Development

In terms of liquidity and interest, the mean open interest for United Airlines Holdings options trades today is 4420.33 with a total volume of 4,662.00.

In the following chart, we are able to follow the development of volume and open interest of call and put options for United Airlines Holdings's big money trades within a strike price range of $40.0 to $45.0 over the last 30 days.

United Airlines Holdings Option Volume And Open Interest Over Last 30 Days

Options Call Chart

Biggest Options Spotted:

 

Symbol PUT/CALL Trade Type Sentiment Exp. Date Strike Price Total Trade Price Open Interest Volume
UAL CALL SWEEP BULLISH 03/17/23 $45.00 $192.6K 5.3K 522
UAL PUT SWEEP BEARISH 01/20/23 $41.00 $104.0K 2.6K 637
UAL CALL TRADE NEUTRAL 01/20/23 $45.00 $103.5K 19.4K 511
UAL CALL TRADE BEARISH 03/17/23 $40.00 $64.0K 2.4K 5
UAL CALL SWEEP BULLISH 01/20/23 $44.00 $47.0K 4.0K 295

Where Is United Airlines Holdings Standing Right Now?

  • With a volume of 2,400,685, the price of UAL is up 1.32% at $43.61.
  • RSI indicators hint that the underlying stock is currently neutral between overbought and oversold.
  • Next earnings are expected to be released in 37 days.

What The Experts Say On United Airlines Holdings:

  • Argus Research upgraded its action to Buy with a price target of $52
  • Morgan Stanley upgraded its action to Overweight with a price target of $67

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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