Noteworthy Thursday Option Activity: MO, JACK, BA
May 19, 2016 at 15:36 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Altria Group Inc (MO), where a total volume of 33,074 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 3.3 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 54.7% of MO's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 6.0 million shares..