a whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bearish stance on citigroup looking at options history for citigroup c we detected 15 strange trades if we consider the specifics of each trade it is accurate to state that 46 of the investors opened trades with bullish expectations and 53 with bearish from the overall spotted trades 5 are puts for a total amount of 705255 and 10 calls for a total amount of 767507 taking into account the volume and open interest on these contracts it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from 400 to 800 for citigroup over the last 3 months in terms of liquidity and interest the mean open interest for citigroup options trades today is 1749533 with a total volume of 1139900 in the following chart we are able to follow the development of volume and open interest of call and put options for citigroups big money trades within a strike price range of 400 to 800 over the last 30 days citigroup option volume and open interest over last 30 days where is citigroup standing right now   with a volume of 5449594 the price of c is up 176 at 5191   rsi indicators hint that the underlying stock is currently neutral between overbought and oversold   next earnings are expected to be released in 49 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 want to stay updated on the latest options trades for citigroup benzinga pro gives you realtime options trades alerts