a whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bearish stance on american airlines group looking at options history for american airlines group aal we detected 10 strange trades if we consider the specifics of each trade it is accurate to state that 40 of the investors opened trades with bullish expectations and 60 with bearish from the overall spotted trades 3 are puts for a total amount of 1035926 and 7 calls for a total amount of 669992 taking into account the volume and open interest on these contracts it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from 130 to 200 for american airlines group over the last 3 months in terms of liquidity and interest the mean open interest for american airlines group options trades today is 239992 with a total volume of 1434200 in the following chart we are able to follow the development of volume and open interest of call and put options for american airlines groups big money trades within a strike price range of 130 to 200 over 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 15336136 the price of aal is down 135 at 1672   rsi indicators hint that the underlying stock may be approaching overbought   next earnings are expected to be released in 13 days what the experts say on american airlines group   goldman sachs has decided to maintain their sell rating on american airlines group which currently sits at a price target of 12 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