Notable Tuesday Option Activity: COF, BCRX, CRUS

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Capital One Financial Corp (COF), where a total volume of 11,853 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 1.2 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 51.4% of COF's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 2.3 million shares..