Noteworthy Friday Option Activity: GILD, OMC, ADSK
July 06, 2018 at 13:20 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Gilead Sciences Inc (GILD), where a total volume of 41,672 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 4.2 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 65.6% of GILD's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 6.4 million shares..