Noteworthy Monday Option Activity: VKTX, MOD, ETSY

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Viking Therapeutics Inc (VKTX), where a total volume of 11,605 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 1.2 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 40.7% of VKTX's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 2.8 million shares..