ford motor co nyse f is up over 2 today finding solid intraday support around 20 as option traders remain heavily bullish on the stock what happened while there have been rumors about ford being named as a new swing trade buy alert by investors business daily option traders have remained aggressively bullish on the stock heading into the new year looking at the option flows on the day ford has traded approximately 396000 options with over 278000 calls and 117000 puts image below of the approximately 396000 options traded 70 of them have been calls which suggests option traders are heavily bullish on the stock why it matters prior to trading on monday ford had about 37 million calls and 27 million puts for a total of 64 million options that shows approximately 57 of all the options are calls which is less than the 70 of calls traded today hence the option trading activity today is particularly bullish whats next looking ahead to the jan 21 expiry next month there is a dearth of volume and open interest between the 20 and 22 strikes image below looking at the option chain the largest strike by volume is 21 but this only has half the open interest of the 22 strike 132000 contracts and about a third of the open interest at the 20 strike 200000 contracts considering how much stronger the call open interest is versus the put open interest for this strike it suggests option traders remain aggressively bullish and expect the stock to be supported at 20 with a potential runup to 22 maybe even 23 by the jan 21 expiry meanwhile pullbacks in the stock could find support between the 19 and 18 strikes which has solid open interest looking ahead related link ford delivers first locally made mustang maches in china as it looks to compete with electric rivals tesla nio