this unusual options alert can help traders track potentially big trading opportunities traders often look for circumstances when the market estimation of an option diverges away from its normal worth unusual trading activity could push option prices to hyperbolic or underperforming levels heres the list of some unusual options activity happening in todays session  these bulletbybullet explanations have been constructed using the accompanying table   for bbig nasdaqbbig we notice a call option sweep that happens to be bearish expiring in 15 days on september 17 2021 this event was a transfer of 318 contracts at a 1000 strike this particular call needed to be split into 4 different trades to become filled the total cost received by the writing party or parties was 508k with a price of 1600 per contract there were 38818 open contracts at this strike prior to today and today 20584 contracts were bought and sold   regarding qs nyseqs we observe a call option sweep with bullish sentiment it expires in 22 days on september 24 2021 parties traded 650 contracts at a 2700 strike this particular call needed to be split into 10 different trades to become filled the total cost received by the writing party or parties was 325k with a price of 500 per contract there were 185 open contracts at this strike prior to today and today 16839 contracts were bought and sold   for ccl nyseccl we notice a call option sweep that happens to be bearish expiring in 78 days on november 19 2021 this event was a transfer of 224 contracts at a 2750 strike this particular call needed to be split into 17 different trades to become filled the total cost received by the writing party or parties was 273k with a price of 1220 per contract there were 7878 open contracts at this strike prior to today and today 11434 contracts were bought and sold   for m nysem we notice a put option trade that happens to be bearish expiring in 1 days on september 3 2021 this event was a transfer of 3836 contracts at a 2300 strike the total cost received by the writing party or parties was 997k with a price of 260 per contract there were 5648 open contracts at this strike prior to today and today 11178 contracts were bought and sold   regarding jd nasdaqjd we observe a call option sweep with bearish sentiment it expires in 15 days on september 17 2021 parties traded 1516 contracts at a 8000 strike this particular call needed to be split into 7 different trades to become filled the total cost received by the writing party or parties was 4628k with a price of 3050 per contract there were 41361 open contracts at this strike prior to today and today 9937 contracts were bought and sold   regarding baba nysebaba we observe a call option sweep with bullish sentiment it expires in 8 days on september 10 2021 parties traded 465 contracts at a 18250 strike this particular call needed to be split into 13 different trades to become filled the total cost received by the writing party or parties was 511k with a price of 1100 per contract there were 1545 open contracts at this strike prior to today and today 7745 contracts were bought and sold   regarding sft nasdaqsft we observe a call option trade with bullish sentiment it expires in 78 days on november 19 2021 parties traded 200 contracts at a 500 strike the total cost received by the writing party or parties was 658k with a price of 3290 per contract there were 3391 open contracts at this strike prior to today and today 3071 contracts were bought and sold   regarding nio nysenio we observe a call option trade with bullish sentiment it expires in 505 days on january 20 2023 parties traded 1900 contracts at a 7000 strike the total cost received by the writing party or parties was 8360k with a price of 4400 per contract there were 9539 open contracts at this strike prior to today and today 1956 contracts were bought and sold   for gm nysegm we notice a put option trade that happens to be neutral expiring in 505 days on january 20 2023 this event was a transfer of 1500 contracts at a 4000 strike the total cost received by the writing party or parties was 5250k with a price of 3500 per contract there were 8948 open contracts at this strike prior to today and today 1500 contracts were bought and sold   regarding tsla nasdaqtsla we observe a call option sweep with bearish sentiment it expires in 15 days on september 17 2021 parties traded 200 contracts at a 76000 strike this particular call needed to be split into 32 different trades to become filled the total cost received by the writing party or parties was 2000k with a price of 10000 per contract there were 4985 open contracts at this strike prior to today and today 1099 contracts were bought and sold options alert terminology   call contracts the right to buy shares as indicated in the contract   put contracts the right to sell shares as indicated in the contract   expiration date when the contract expires one must act on the contract by this date if one wants to use it   premiumoption price the price of the contract for more information visit our guide to understanding options alerts or read more news on unusual options activity