Noteworthy Friday Option Activity: AAPL, ARAY, GOOGL
May 17, 2019 at 15:23 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Apple Inc (AAPL), where a total volume of 549,378 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 54.9 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 172.9% of AAPL's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 31.8 million shares..