Notable Wednesday Option Activity: NKTR, EXPE, TACO
March 14, 2018 at 15:33 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR), where a total volume of 15,745 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 1.6 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 58.5% of NKTR's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 2.7 million shares..