Noteworthy Tuesday Option Activity: VAR, APC, V
April 11, 2017 at 13:36 PM EDT
Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Varian Medical Systems Inc (VAR), where a total volume of 4,038 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 403,800 underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 51.8% of VAR's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 780,185 shares..