Notable Monday Option Activity: COST, CIA, K
August 29, 2016 at 15:27 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Costco Wholesale Corp (COST), where a total volume of 6,254 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 625,400 underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 44.2% of COST's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 1.4 million shares..