Notable Wednesday Option Activity: NLY, HD, MPW

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Annaly Capital Management Inc (NLY), where a total volume of 102,249 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 10.2 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 129.5% of NLY's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 7.9 million shares..