Noteworthy Friday Option Activity: COST, VMW, ACXM
September 14, 2018 at 15:26 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Costco Wholesale Corp (COST), where a total volume of 34,718 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 3.5 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 183.9% of COST's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 1.9 million shares..