Noteworthy Tuesday Option Activity: MDT, CATM, CTB
July 17, 2018 at 15:46 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Medtronic PLC (MDT), where a total volume of 27,994 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 2.8 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 65.6% of MDT's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 4.3 million shares..