Noteworthy Tuesday Option Activity: OXY, QCOM, CHTR

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Occidental Petroleum Corp (OXY), where a total volume of 88,033 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 8.8 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 59.8% of OXY's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 14.7 million shares..