Notable Thursday Option Activity: GS, DIS, INTC

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in GS (GS), where a total volume of 40,229 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 4.0 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 188.6% of GS's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 2.1 million shares..