Noteworthy Thursday Option Activity: OEC, UNIT, AR

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Orion Engineered Carbons SA (OEC), where a total volume of 2,486 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 248,600 underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 60.3% of OEC's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 412,465 shares..