Notable Thursday Option Activity: HAL, AGIO, PTCT
November 15, 2018 at 15:22 PM EST
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Halliburton Company (HAL), where a total volume of 77,098 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 7.7 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 63.4% of HAL's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 12.2 million shares..