Notable Friday Option Activity: GS, DISCA, UNH
January 17, 2020 at 13:45 PM EST
Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Goldman Sachs Group Inc (the (GS), where a total volume of 37,235 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 128.5% of GS's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 2.9 million shares..