Noteworthy Tuesday Option Activity: ECPG, SGMS, BGC

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Encore Capital Group Inc (ECPG), where a total of 5,528 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 552,800 underlying shares. That amounts to about 266.7% of ECPG's average daily trading volume over the past month of 207,260 shares..