Noteworthy Tuesday Option Activity: MRK, AVEO, TROX
July 10, 2018 at 15:17 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Merck & Co Inc (MRK), where a total volume of 59,825 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 6.0 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 59% of MRK's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 10.1 million shares..