Notable Tuesday Option Activity: GOOG, CAT, C
March 06, 2018 at 13:26 PM EST
Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Alphabet Inc (GOOG), where a total volume of 9,300 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 930,000 underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 45.3% of GOOG's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 2.1 million shares..