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Investors with a lot of money to spend have taken a bearish stance on Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META).
And retail traders should know.
We noticed this today when the trades showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.
Whether these are institutions or just wealthy individuals, we don't know. But when something this big happens with META, it often means somebody knows something is about to happen.
So how do we know what these investors just did?
Today, Benzinga's options scanner spotted 46 uncommon options trades for Meta Platforms.
This isn't normal.
The overall sentiment of these big-money traders is split between 34% bullish and 50%, bearish.
Out of all of the special options we uncovered, 29 are puts, for a total amount of $1,925,030, and 17 are calls, for a total amount of $1,063,422.
After evaluating the trading volumes and Open Interest, it's evident that the major market movers are focusing on a price band between $580.0 and $750.0 for Meta Platforms, spanning the last three months.
Looking at the volume and open interest is a powerful move while trading options. This data can help you track the liquidity and interest for Meta Platforms's 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 Meta Platforms's whale trades within a strike price range from $580.0 to $750.0 in the last 30 days.
| Symbol | PUT/CALL | Trade Type | Sentiment | Exp. Date | Ask | Bid | Price | Strike Price | Total Trade Price | Open Interest | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| META | CALL | SWEEP | BULLISH | 11/07/25 | $1.3 | $1.27 | $1.3 | $650.00 | $247.2K | 11.6K | 873 |
| META | PUT | SWEEP | BEARISH | 12/19/25 | $10.95 | $10.8 | $10.95 | $580.00 | $218.8K | 2.4K | 248 |
| META | PUT | TRADE | BULLISH | 01/15/27 | $101.7 | $101.3 | $101.3 | $650.00 | $202.6K | 1.4K | 0 |
| META | PUT | SWEEP | NEUTRAL | 11/07/25 | $1.27 | $1.25 | $1.27 | $605.00 | $177.8K | 4.4K | 3.5K |
| META | PUT | TRADE | BEARISH | 11/07/25 | $64.45 | $63.65 | $64.45 | $700.00 | $122.4K | 580 | 7 |
Meta is the largest social media company in the world, boasting close to 4 billion monthly active users worldwide. The firm's "Family of Apps," its core business, consists of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. End users can leverage these applications for a variety of different purposes, from keeping in touch with friends to following celebrities and running digital businesses for free. Meta packages customer data, gleaned from its application ecosystem and sells ads to digital advertisers. While the firm has been investing heavily in its Reality Labs business, it remains a very small part of Meta's overall sales.
In light of the recent options history for Meta Platforms, it's now appropriate to focus on the company itself. We aim to explore its current performance.
Over the past month, 5 industry analysts have shared their insights on this stock, proposing an average target price of $853.4.
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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.
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