10 energy stocks with whale alerts in today's session

This whale alert can help traders discover the next big trading opportunities.

Whales are big money entities and we track their transactions here at Benzinga on our options activity scanner.

Traders will look for circumstances where the market estimate of an option deviates significantly from its normal value. High volumes of trading activity could push option prices to overstated or understated levels.

Here is the list of options activities happening in today's session:

Symbol PUT/CALL Kind of trade Feeling Exp. Date Strike price Total trade price open interest Volume COP CALL TRADE BEARISH 09/16/22 $100.00 $656.5,000 1.3K 2.7K AR CALL SWEEP BULLISH 08/19/22 $40.00 $187,200 6.8K 1.7K XOM CALL TRADE NEUTRAL 09/16/22 $90.00 $36.9,000 12.9K 1.2K CROC CALL TRADE BULLISH 08/19/22 $115.00 $88.2K 2.6K 1.1K GPRE CALL SWEEP BEARISH 01/20/23 $30.00 $62,000 2.8K 778 LPI CALL TRADE BEARISH 09/16/22 $85.00 $29,000 171 727 KMI CALL SWEEP BULLISH 09/16/22 $18.00 $30,000 13.0K 534 IT IS PUT SWEEP BEARISH 08/19/22 $111.00 $105,000 0 502 CLC CALL SWEEP BULLISH 01/20/23 $175.00 $74,000 3.2K 357 CAMBER CALL TRADE BEARISH 08/19/22 $135.00 $76,000 888 175

These detailed elaborations were created using the attached table.

• For COP COP we notice a call option trade which happens to be bearish, expiring in 36 day(s) on Sep 16, 2022. This event was a transfer of 1 300 contract(s) during a $100.00 strike. The total cost received by the drafting party (or parties) was $656,500, with a price of $505.0 per contract. There were 1385 contracts open during this strike before today, and today 2745 contracts were bought and sold.

• On AR AR, we are seeing a sweep of call options with bullish sentiment. It expires in 8 day(s) on August 19, 2022. The parties traded 1135 contract(s) during a $40.00 strike. This particular call had to be split into 44 different trades to be filled. The total cost received by the drafting party (or parties) was $187,200, with a price of $165.0 per contract. There were 6828 contracts open during this strike before today, and today 1722 contracts were bought and sold.

• Regarding XOM XOM, we are seeing call options trading with neutral sentiment. It expires in 36 day(s) on September 16, 2022. The parties traded 60 contract(s) during a $90.00 strike. The total cost received by the writing...