someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bearish stance on alphabet googl and retail traders should know we noticed this today when the big position showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at benzinga whether this is an institution or just a wealthy individual we dont know but when something this big happens with googl it often means somebody knows something is about to happen the overall sentiment of these bigmoney traders is split between 16 bullish and 83 bearish out of all of the options we uncovered there was 1 put for a total amount of 74005 and 11 calls for a total amount of 391544 taking into account the volume and open interest on these contracts it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from 1200 to 1350 for alphabet over the last 3 months looking at the volume and open interest is a powerful move while trading options this data can help you track the liquidity and interest for alphabets options for a given strike price below we can observe the evolution of the volume and open interest of calls and puts respectively for all of alphabets whale trades within a strike price range from 1200 to 1350 in the last 30 days alphabet option volume and open interest over last 30 days where is alphabet standing right now   with a volume of 4887919 the price of googl is down 003 at 11966   rsi indicators hint that the underlying stock may be approaching oversold   next earnings are expected to be released in 22 days what the experts say on alphabet   b of a securities has decided to maintain their buy rating on alphabet which currently sits at a price target of 128   wells fargo downgraded its action to equalweight with a price target of 117   bernstein downgraded its action to market perform with a price target of 125   jmp securities downgraded its action to market outperform with a price target of 132   ubs downgraded its action to neutral with a price target of 132 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 if you want to stay updated on the latest options trades for alphabet benzinga pro gives you realtime options trades alerts