Notable Thursday Option Activity: AMGN, AMD, COST
October 31, 2019 at 13:28 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Amgen Inc (AMGN), where a total volume of 14,110 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 1.4 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 71.3% of AMGN's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 2.0 million shares..