Notable Monday Option Activity: GOOG, OPRX, SQ
May 17, 2021 at 15:31 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Alphabet Inc (GOOG), where a total volume of 20,318 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 2.0 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 137.2% of GOOG's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 1.5 million shares..