Noteworthy Tuesday Option Activity: CVX, MBI, AAL

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Chevron Corporation (CVX), where a total volume of 32,731 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 3.3 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 55.4% of CVX's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 5.9 million shares..