Noteworthy Friday Option Activity: IBM, NKE, MSFT
May 07, 2021 at 13:33 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in International Business Machines Corp (IBM), where a total volume of 81,715 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 8.2 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 129.8% of IBM's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 6.3 million shares..