a whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bearish stance on xilinx looking at options history for xilinx nasdaqxlnx we detected 28 strange trades if we consider the specifics of each trade it is accurate to state that 39 of the investors opened trades with bullish expectations and 60 with bearish from the overall spotted trades 10 are puts for a total amount of 873105 and 18 calls for a total amount of 1761106 taking into account the volume and open interest on these contracts it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from 1200 to 2200 for xilinx over the last 3 months in terms of liquidity and interest the mean open interest for xilinx options trades today is 145783 with a total volume of 180300 in the following chart we are able to follow the development of volume and open interest of call and put options for xilinxs big money trades within a strike price range of 1200 to 2200 over the last 30 days xilinx option volume and open interest over last 30 days where is xilinx standing right now   with a volume of 663831 the price of xlnx is up 01 at 18928   rsi indicators hint that the underlying stock may be approaching oversold   next earnings are expected to be released in 11 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 if you are already an options trader or would like to get started head on over to benzinga pro benzinga pro gives you uptodate news and analytics to empower your investing and trading strategy