Noteworthy Friday Option Activity: AR, RLGY, TTD

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Antero Resources Corp (AR), where a total volume of 15,381 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 1.5 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 53.5% of AR's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 2.9 million shares..