Noteworthy Wednesday Option Activity: VIRT, DKS, PGEN

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Virtu Financial Inc - Class A (VIRT), where a total volume of 8,949 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 894,900 underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 66.6% of VIRT's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 1.3 million shares..