Noteworthy Thursday Option Activity: GS, AMD, BKNG

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS), where a total volume of 22,905 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 2.3 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 94.1% of GS's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 2.4 million shares..