Notable Wednesday Option Activity: GOOG, AAP, DISH
February 21, 2018 at 13:22 PM EST
Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Alphabet Inc (GOOG), where a total volume of 15,532 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 1.6 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 71% of GOOG's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 2.2 million shares..