Noteworthy Friday Option Activity: BK, AXP, VRSN
October 21, 2016 at 13:22 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Bank of New York Mellon Corp (BK), where a total volume of 26,498 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 2.6 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 43.9% of BK's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 6.0 million shares..