Notable Friday Option Activity: ECPG, HASI, MSFT
October 21, 2016 at 11:27 AM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Encore Capital Group Inc (ECPG), where a total volume of 5,045 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 504,500 underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 244.7% of ECPG's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 206,205 shares..