Noteworthy Tuesday Option Activity: AMGN, ROK, ORCL
March 14, 2017 at 14:30 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Amgen Inc (AMGN), where a total volume of 22,162 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 2.2 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 69.6% of AMGN's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 3.2 million shares..