Notable Wednesday Option Activity: IBM, CRWD, CTSH
August 18, 2021 at 15:30 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in International Business Machines Corp (IBM), where a total volume of 18,851 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 1.9 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 54.3% of IBM's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 3.5 million shares..