someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bearish stance on barrick gold gold 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 gold it often means somebody knows something is about to happen the overall sentiment of these bigmoney traders is split between 36 bullish and 63 bearish out of all of the options we uncovered there was 1 put for a total amount of 33960 and 10 calls for a total amount of 598032 taking into account the volume and open interest on these contracts it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from 100 to 200 for barrick gold over the last 3 months looking at the volume and open interest is an insightful way to conduct due diligence on a stock this data can help you track the liquidity and interest for barrick golds options for a given strike price below we can observe the evolution of the volume and open interest of calls and puts respectively for all of barrick golds whale activity within a strike price range from 100 to 200 in the last 30 days barrick gold option volume and open interest over last 30 days where is barrick gold standing right now   with a volume of 9226753 the price of gold is up 13 at 1947   rsi indicators hint that the underlying stock may be overbought   next earnings are expected to be released in 34 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 barrick gold benzinga pro gives you realtime options trades alerts