Notable Thursday Option Activity: AMD, URI, AIG

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD), where a total volume of 443,590 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 44.4 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 100.1% of AMD's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 44.3 million shares..