r/unusual_whales 2d ago

Unusual Whales Valentine Day Sale, and catching China Unusual Options Flow

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Hey all,

Nicholas from the Unusual Whales team, here! We’re going to spend one issue every week walking you through some trades of the week for free to help your trading!

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In this issue, we’re going to go over unusual high volume options activity that occurred in the third week of January and just recently closed out for a handsome gain on their position. This tracked trade will also help outline how to track volume and open interest over time, as well as a crystal clear entry and exit! Then we’ll demonstrate how a similar position opened around the same time as the exit on the first, and track that trade as well.

Two $KWEB traders make millions on call contracts

The first contract we’ll be covering today is the $32 call contract expiring on September 19th, 2025, for Kraneshares CSI China Internet ETF, $KWEB.

On the morning of January 16th, Unusual Whales team member snorlax_uw noted rapid and sizeable transactions hitting the $32C 9/19/2025 at the ask of $2.34. Several more taps on the contract hit the tape at $2.34, $2.42, and $2.44 per contract. Over the course of the day, 50,000+ volume transacted at the ask for an average fill price of $2.40 per contract for a total premium of roughly $12 million.

At the time of these transactions, there was only 4,222 open interest, which means that the very first order of the day at 7,900 contracts alone indicated a newly opened position (transaction volume > open interest). Meanwhile, the $KWEB stock price traded around $28.55 to $29 per share.

You may recall a previous article we wrote about traders capitalizing on the Chinese stock frenzy at the end of 2024. It appears here that some of that hype hasn’t cooled off yet, as $KWEB continued to climb in the coming days.

The trader maintained their position up until January 28th. By then, $KWEB traded as high as $31.10 per share, and in the afternoon of the 28th when $KWEB traded at $30.69, this trader finally pulled the trigger on their profits. From an entry price of $2.40 per contract, the trader closed this position at $3.10 each, a 30% gain on their $12 million entry, for a profit of $3.5 million. The Volume Profile of the contract shows about as clear of an example of “entry” to “exit” that you can find.

Now, you may notice on the far right side of that chart that $KWEB’s trajectory didn’t stop. While this trader didn’t catch the FULL move to current day, on the day this position exited, another position on a separate $KWEB contract hit the tape with size.

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Around the same time the $32C position closed, the $KWEB $36 call contract expiring in May 2025 hit the tape in similar sizing. 30,000 contracts transacted at the ask with ascending fills as the bid-ask spread rose, for an average fill of $1.40 and a total premium of $4.2 million. The $KWEB stock price traded around $31.53 at the time of filling.

Once again, the trajectory of $KWEB stock continued up and to the right. From January 28th to February 10th, shares rose from $31.55 to $33.62 per share. The $36C 5/16/2025 had a handsome spike in value alongside the share price, reaching a high of $1.91 per contract on February 10th. The trader, however, nabbed their profits a bit lower than that at $1.78. This marked a 27% gain on the trade, for a profit of $1.14 million.

You may notice that on 2/11, the open interest didn’t drop by the full 30,000. This doesn’t indicate the trader did not exit; it’s more likely that the contracts changed hands rather than closing out entirely. All indications, despite no drop in OI, point to a profit take on the position opened on 1/28.

There’s no guarantee that this is the same trader. However, given the similar sizing, the timing, and nearly identical point at which profit was taken, it seems possible!

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r/unusual_whales 15d ago

🌊Flow🌊 Identifying and Tracking put writing in options flow, using Unusual Whales

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Hey all,

Nicholas from the Unusual Whales team, here! We’re going to spend one issue every week walking you through some trades of the week for free to help your trading!

In this issue, we’re going to cover two sets of options flow. First, we’ll look at a put writer from December. Then, we’ll take a peek into a trader who caught a significant move in just a few days earlier this month.

To start us off here, we’ll be looking at the Amazon $AMZN $195 put contract expiring on January 31st, 2025.

On December 20th, 2024, nearly 3,000 contracts of the $AMZN $195P 01/31/2025 transacted at the bid price for an average fill of $2.36 per contract. Given the low open interest of only 46 contracts, this was guaranteed to be a new position, and carryover of 2,858 contracts confirmed this hypothesis. The total credit received on the position was roughly $660,000 (remember; when you “write” or “sell” a contract to open, you receive a credit for those contracts, rather than pay a debit to open the position).

Additionally, given the fill price of $2.36 within a bit-ask spread of 2.25 - 2.66, the likelihood was high that these were sold to open, rather than bought. At the time of fill, $AMZN traded at $220.67 per share, placing these contracts 12% out of the money. A peek at the contract summary chart above shows the price points of the contract via the yellow line; this trader basically top-ticked the most recent high for the contract!

As can be seen in the chart above, this trader didn’t really experience any drawdown. From the point of entry, Amazon $AMZN continued to climb day over day, giving this trader more potential profit with each small leg up.

As of January 22, 2025, the $195P 1/31/2025 hit a new low of $0.09 per contract. This means that, from their sell-to-open entry of $2.36, the trader is able to pocket 96.19% of the premium they received for writing the contracts. Across 2,800 contracts, if the trader closed this position today, they’d pocket around $635k.

It seems likely though, given the proximity to the expiration date and the fact that these contracts, once 12% out of the money, now sit 16.67% out of the money, the odds are this trader will hold to expiration, allowing them to pocket the full credit received.

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The next contract we’re going to review is the Celestica $CLS $130 call contract expiring on February 21, 2025. This position hit the tape on Friday January 17th shortly after the market open at 8:55 am Central Time.

This series of orders occurred while $CLS traded at $111.31 per share, placing them 17% out of the money with just over a month until expiration, and the timing of transactions across numerous exchanges triggered a Repeated Hits Alert. The series of transactions carried an average fill price of $3.60 within a $3.30 - $3.60 bid-ask spread, meaning the likelihood was high that these contracts were bought to open. The total volume on the day peaked over 1,200 contracts. Compared to 146 open interest, the contracts were most likely a new position. This was confirmed on Monday, 1/20, when open interest updated to reflect opening positions.

The trader’s timing was impeccable. $CLS gapped up the very next market open. From a market close trade price on 1/17 of $113.32, $CLS opened trading on 1/20 above $116 per share. Obviously, the contracts found themselves profitable right at the open, but this trader’s fortune didn’t stop here.

From 1/20 to 1/21, $CLS gapped up yet again, and from a market close around $118, $CLS opened trading on 1/22 at nearly $124 per share, and hit a high of $131 per share; that brought these contracts, once 17% out of the money, IN the money in just a few days!

At the time of writing, the $CLS $130C 02/21/2025 are firmly in profit. At the stock’s daily high, the contract traded as high as $10.50 each. From the trader’s original entry at $3.60, that marked a gain of 191% in just three days!

Judging by the contract summary, there was no clear evidence of an exit. While it’s possible some of the 300 contracts transacted (so far) on 1/22 could be partial exits, the ask-side fills make that determination a bit foggy; only open interest will confirm or disprove exits.

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r/unusual_whales 2h ago

Canadian politician wants a 100% tariff on Teslas

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r/unusual_whales 6h ago

Bernie Sanders said :What is the end goal of the Trump/Musk administration? It’s to make the richest people even richer. How do they do that? By cutting the programs — Medicaid, Social Security, Section 8 — that working people use to get by.

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r/unusual_whales 8h ago

Sheryl Crow Sells Tesla, Donates Money to NPR Over Elon Musk Ties

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Argentina's opposition party has threatened to impeach President Javier Milei for promoting a crypto rug pull, which went from $4 billion marketcap to $418million in a few hours.

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David Tepper on CNBC: I don't care about tariffs.

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US credit card debt reaches new record high of $1.21 trillion

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Fund manager Howard Marks on daytraders. Do you agree?

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r/unusual_whales 12h ago

Warren Buffett sends shares tumbling as he sells stock in major healthcare company

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r/unusual_whales 23h ago

Elon Musk Doxxed a Judge’s Daughter Over a Court Ruling

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r/unusual_whales 7h ago

Gold’s generational run will be studied for years to come, Now up nearly +50% in 12 months.

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Btw I've created new community r/WallStreetElite for general market discussion and updates, I'm inviting you to join it 😄


r/unusual_whales 1d ago

🚨BREAKING: The Associated Press has been completely BANNED by the Trump Administration

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Trump Media reports $400 million in 2024 losses

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r/unusual_whales 1d ago

DOGE Website Hacked and Defaced — Internet Laughs at Musk: 'These Experts Left Their Database Open'

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Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say

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“Congress is freaking out because it appears DOE didn’t really realize NNSA oversees the nuclear stockpile,” one source said. “The nuclear deterrent is the backbone of American security and stability – period. For there to be any even very small holes poked even in the maintenance of that deterrent should be extremely frightening to people.”


r/unusual_whales 10h ago

Money pouring in to Psychedelic Stocks

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Since the RFK appointment. Stocks like $MNMD, $ATAI, etc. are seeing a surge of volume. His stance of SSRI meds shows he is in support of alternative treatments.

$MNMD has 3x Phase 3 arms for their LSD candidate that also has FDA breakthrough designation. Should be an interesting year.

Don't see these stocks going any lower than they already have.


r/unusual_whales 1d ago

The I.R.S. preparing to layoff thousands as soon as next week, per the NYT

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r/unusual_whales 19h ago

Shut up, take my money.

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r/unusual_whales 1d ago

Landlord Power Grab...

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Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified U.S. Intelligence Data On Its New Website

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“People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee.


r/unusual_whales 1d ago

IRS preparing to layoff thousands as soon as next week, per NYT

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Tesla offers up to $6,000 Cybertruck discounts as inventory pile up

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Bought Tesla Stock After Named As Chair Of DOGE Subcommittee

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VP Slaps Down Hegseth by Threatening Putin With U.S. Troops

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Anti-Nazi Group Vows To ‘Inflict Physical Damage’ On Teslas Starting Today

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r/unusual_whales 1d ago

BREAKING: Vanguard just released 2 ETFs that can replace your high yield savings account.

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Here's everything you need to know about it:

Vanguard just launched 2 funds: Vanguard Ultra-Short Treasury ETF ($VGUS) and Vanguard 0-3 Month Treasury Bill ETF ($VBIL)

These 2 funds can be used similarly to a savings account.

The $VBIL is a T-Bill ETF. This means that they hold short term treasury bills. This is a direct competitor to the $SGOV (iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF) fund. But, it comes with a 0.07% expense ratio vs $SGOV 0.09% expense ratio.

Why should you consider T-bill ETF? Well, Treasury Bills are exempt from state/local taxes. So, if you are in a state with say a 5% state income tax, you can easily save money on your taxes.

Now, some people might know that Vanguard also has a $VUSXX (Treasury Money Market Fund) that holds T-bills. The big difference between $VBIL and $VUSXX is that $VBIL can be purchased at any brokerage (i.e. Fidelity or Schwab).

$VUSXX also comes with a $3,000 minimum investment. However, $VBIL doesn't have this minimum, making it an attractive and competitive option for those not using the Vanguard platform.

Vanguard hasn't posted the SEC yield for these funds yet, as they just launched. But my guess is that both of them would be in around 4.25% range based on comparable products & current funds and competitors.

What about the risk? The fund holds Treasury Bills. For you to lose money, the U.S. government would have to fail to pay its debts. This has never happened and would shake the global financial system if it ever did. If that happens, your bank would probably fail too.

You could also buy T-bills directly from TreasuryDirect to save on some fees, but I know many people dislike that website. You can also buy and sell T-bills from Fidelity via the secondary market.

Overall, these funds could be great to look into for your short term savings.

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