Noteworthy Friday Option Activity: BKD, UMBF, ATHN
January 05, 2018 at 16:02 PM EST
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Brookdale Senior Living Inc (BKD), where a total volume of 11,120 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 1.1 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 57.7% of BKD's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 1.9 million shares..