Noteworthy Thursday Option Activity: IBM, XOM, RMTI

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in International Business Machines Corp (IBM), where a total of 23,308 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 2.3 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 43% of IBM's average daily trading volume over the past month of 5.4 million shares..