someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bearish stance on booking holdings bkng 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 bkng 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 47 bullish and 52 bearish out of all of the special options we uncovered 10 are puts for a total amount of 341439 and 7 are calls for a total amount of 237127 taking into account the volume and open interest on these contracts it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from 8600 to 21750 for booking holdings over the last 3 months in terms of liquidity and interest the mean open interest for booking holdings options trades today is 22473 with a total volume of 37100 in the following chart we are able to follow the development of volume and open interest of call and put options for booking holdingss big money trades within a strike price range of 8600 to 21750 over the last 30 days booking holdings option volume and open interest over last 30 days where is booking holdings standing right now   with a volume of 128756 the price of bkng is down 133 at 202908   rsi indicators hint that the underlying stock may be approaching overbought   next earnings are expected to be released in 78 days what the experts say on booking holdings   susquehanna has decided to maintain their positive rating on booking holdings which currently sits at a price target of 2650   barclays has decided to maintain their overweight rating on booking holdings which currently sits at a price target of 2430 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 booking holdings benzinga pro gives you realtime options trades alerts