a whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bearish stance on general motors looking at options history for general motors gm we detected 10 strange trades if we consider the specifics of each trade it is accurate to state that 10 of the investors opened trades with bullish expectations and 90 with bearish from the overall spotted trades 7 are puts for a total amount of 446025 and 3 calls for a total amount of 102760 taking into account the volume and open interest on these contracts it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from 400 to 470 for general motors over the last 3 months in terms of liquidity and interest the mean open interest for general motors options trades today is 33002 with a total volume of 937300 in the following chart we are able to follow the development of volume and open interest of call and put options for general motorss big money trades within a strike price range of 400 to 470 over the last 30 days general motors option volume and open interest over last 30 days where is general motors standing right now   with a volume of 1736986 the price of gm is down 164 at 4247   rsi indicators hint that the underlying stock may be approaching overbought   next earnings are expected to be released in 29 days what the experts say on general motors   benchmark has decided to maintain their buy rating on general motors which currently sits at a price target of 75   wolfe research has decided to maintain their outperform rating on general motors which currently sits at a price target of 70   jefferies has decided to maintain their hold rating on general motors which currently sits at a price target of 44   wells fargo has decided to maintain their overweight rating on general motors which currently sits at a price target of 72   morgan stanley has decided to maintain their equalweight rating on general motors which currently sits at a price target of 50 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