Notable Wednesday Option Activity: WMT, BYD, DIN
February 21, 2018 at 15:16 PM EST
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Walmart Inc (WMT), where a total volume of 277,374 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 27.7 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 234.5% of WMT's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 11.8 million shares..