Notable Wednesday Option Activity: WMT, FAST, EXAS
January 17, 2018 at 15:37 PM EST
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT), where a total volume of 107,125 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 10.7 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 131.2% of WMT's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 8.2 million shares..