someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bearish stance on american airlines group aal 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 aal it often means somebody knows something is about to happen so how do we know what this whale just did the overall sentiment of these bigmoney traders is split between 29 bullish and 70 bearish out of all of the special options we uncovered 4 are puts for a total amount of 152784 and 13 are calls for a total amount of 1093621 taking into account the volume and open interest on these contracts it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from 90 to 170 for american airlines group over the last 3 months looking at the volume and open interest is an insightful way to conduct due diligence on a stock this data can help you track the liquidity and interest for american airlines groups 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 american airlines groups whale activity within a strike price range from 90 to 170 in the last 30 days american airlines group option volume and open interest over last 30 days where is american airlines group standing right now   with a volume of 27131769 the price of aal is up 084 at 1316   rsi indicators hint that the underlying stock is currently neutral between overbought and oversold   next earnings are expected to be released in 6 days what the experts say on american airlines group   b of a securities has decided to maintain their underperform rating on american airlines group which currently sits at a price target of 7 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 american airlines group benzinga pro gives you realtime options trades alerts