Notable Wednesday Option Activity: ABT, NOV, JPM
January 10, 2018 at 14:27 PM EST
Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Abbott Laboratories (ABT), where a total volume of 37,264 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 3.7 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 54% of ABT's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 6.9 million shares..