Noteworthy Thursday Option Activity: QGEN, XENT, IPGP
December 26, 2019 at 15:21 PM EST
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Qiagen NV (QGEN), where a total volume of 29,620 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 3.0 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 176.9% of QGEN's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 1.7 million shares..