Noteworthy Tuesday Option Activity: VKTX, WHR, VRE
August 27, 2024 at 15:32 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Viking Therapeutics Inc (VKTX), where a total volume of 24,838 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 2.5 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 72.4% of VKTX's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 3.4 million shares..