Noteworthy Tuesday Option Activity: AFL, TJX, DISCA
January 09, 2018 at 13:37 PM EST
Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in AFLAC Inc (AFL), where a total volume of 8,068 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 806,800 underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 50% of AFL's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 1.6 million shares..