This whale alert can help traders discover the next big trading opportunities.
Whales are entities with large sums of money and we track their transactions here at Benzinga on our options activity scanner.
Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bullish stance on Mastercard (NYSE:MA).
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.
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A whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bearish stance on Mastercard.
Looking at options history for Mastercard (NYSE:MA) we detected 40 strange trades.