An impeccably well-timed trade has prompted claims of insider trading, as a trader appears to have made a nearly 46,000% return after opening calls in cybersecurity software company Splunk—just one day before Cisco Systems snapped up the artificial intelligence-driven cybersecurity firm in a blockbuster deal.

In a Thursday tweet, Unusual Whales—which provides trading data—flagged a “crazy trade” where someone opened 127 Splunk calls ($SPLK) on Wednesday for a total of $22,000. In finance, call options are contracts which give someone the right to buy assets such as stocks or bonds at an agreed price until a specific date. 

The trade happened mere hours before Thursday’s announcement from Cisco that it made the biggest technology acquisition of the year, as the networking equipment giant agreed to buy AI cybersecurity firm Splunk for about $28 billion. 

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