Noteworthy Thursday Option Activity: AA, NYMX, ATRA
August 16, 2018 at 15:32 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Alcoa Corporation (AA), where a total volume of 36,670 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 3.7 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 68.1% of AA's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 5.4 million shares..