# Whale options trades

> The market’s largest options prints for a completed session, across every underlying. Free, delayed at least 48 hours, no account required.

- Canonical page: [https://caymanbot.com/whale-trades](https://caymanbot.com/whale-trades)
- Content type: product
- Last reviewed: 2026-09-02
- Publisher: CaymanBot, LLC

## Quick answer

The market’s largest options prints for a completed session, across every underlying. Free, delayed at least 48 hours, no account required.

## Key points

- **Largest prints market-wide:** The session’s biggest options trades by premium across every underlying, not just one ticker.
- **Filter the whale tape:** Narrow by symbol, calls versus puts, minimum premium and sentiment.
- **Top symbols by whale premium:** Which underlyings concentrated the session’s large-trade premium, split calls versus puts.

## What is a whale options trade?

A whale trade is an unusually large options print — typically measured by the premium paid. This page ranks the completed session’s reported prints by premium across the whole market and shows the largest of them with contract identity, size, execution side and a derived sentiment label.

Size alone does not reveal intent. A large call purchase can be a hedge, a spread leg or a closing trade; the labels here are classifications over observable prints, not facts about the trader’s position.

## How to read the whale tape

Start with where the premium concentrated — the top-symbols table — then inspect the individual prints. Repeated large prints in the same contract and expiry are more informative than one outlier. For anything actionable, research the contract’s liquidity, catalysts and implied volatility in the full application.

- Rank by premium, but read size and price together — cheap contracts make big sizes look dramatic.
- Ask-side prints suggest buying pressure; bid-side prints suggest selling — neither is proof.
- Compare a symbol’s whale premium with its normal activity before calling it unusual.
- Follow individual prints live, with alerts and baselines, in the CaymanBot app.

## Primary sources

- [Options Price Reporting Authority — consolidated options market data](https://www.opraplan.com/)
- [OCC — Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options](https://www.theocc.com/company-information/documents-and-archives/options-disclosure-document)

## Frequently asked questions

### Where can I see the biggest options trades for free?

On this page. CaymanBot publishes the completed session’s largest options prints across the whole market daily, delayed at least 48 hours, with no account required.

### Is this whale flow live?

No. Figures are delayed at least 48 hours and update once per day. Live whale detection, alerts and baseline analysis are in the CaymanBot app.

### Does a big call trade mean someone is bullish?

Not by itself. Large prints can be hedges, spread legs or closing trades. The sentiment label is a classification built from the execution side and option type, not knowledge of the trader’s book.

## Related CaymanBot resources

- [Options volume by ticker](https://caymanbot.com/options-volume)
- [Live options flow scanner for unusual activity](https://caymanbot.com/options-flow)
- [Find unusual options activity in live options flow](https://caymanbot.com/unusual-options-activity)
- [Options flow glossary: the tape, translated](https://caymanbot.com/options-flow-glossary)

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