Notable Wednesday Option Activity: GRPN, BEL, CCS

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Groupon Inc (GRPN), where a total volume of 36,746 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 3.7 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 63.1% of GRPN's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 5.8 million shares..