BAC News

Bank of America's (NYSE:BAC) short percent of float has risen 6.58% since its last report. The company recently reported that it has 65.35 million shares sold short, which is 0.81% of all regular shares that are available for trading.

Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bearish stance on Bank of America (NYSE:BAC). 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.

As of this past Friday, 17 of the 18 banks in the S&P 500 have reported results for the first quarter and not only have the quantitative results been supportive of strong fundamentals, but the tone from management teams has also been consistently positive about business trends.

A whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bullish stance on Bank of America. Looking at options history for Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) we detected 13 strange trades.