a whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bearish stance on us bancorp looking at options history for us bancorp usb we detected 11 strange trades if we consider the specifics of each trade it is accurate to state that 9 of the investors opened trades with bullish expectations and 90 with bearish from the overall spotted trades 5 are puts for a total amount of 196662 and 6 calls for a total amount of 718303 taking into account the volume and open interest on these contracts it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from 275 to 475 for us bancorp over the last 3 months in terms of liquidity and interest the mean open interest for us bancorp options trades today is 13384 with a total volume of 244500 in the following chart we are able to follow the development of volume and open interest of call and put options for us bancorps big money trades within a strike price range of 275 to 475 over the last 30 days us bancorp option volume and open interest over last 30 days where is us bancorp standing right now   with a volume of 12721790 the price of usb is up 097 at 3524   rsi indicators hint that the underlying stock may be approaching oversold   next earnings are expected to be released in 23 days what the experts say on us bancorp   goldman sachs downgraded its action to neutral with a price target of 51   oppenheimer has decided to maintain their outperform rating on us bancorp which currently sits at a price target of 64   baird upgraded its action to outperform with a price target of 52   goldman sachs has decided to maintain their neutral rating on us bancorp which currently sits at a price target of 44   rbc capital has decided to maintain their outperform rating on us bancorp which currently sits at a price target of 49 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 us bancorp benzinga pro gives you realtime options trades alerts