Notable Thursday Option Activity: OXY, VRTX, AIG
September 07, 2017 at 14:34 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Occidental Petroleum Corp (OXY), where a total volume of 24,611 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 2.5 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 80.7% of OXY's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 3.0 million shares..