Notable Thursday Option Activity: AMAT, OXY, UNP
August 18, 2016 at 14:20 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT), where a total volume of 35,907 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 3.6 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares)..