Noteworthy Wednesday Option Activity: ABT, TRV, AMRS
July 18, 2018 at 15:17 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Abbott Laboratories (ABT), where a total volume of 20,141 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 2.0 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 42.8% of ABT's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 4.7 million shares..