Noteworthy Wednesday Option Activity: NEM, SAM, DHT

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Newmont Mining Corp (NEM), where a total volume of 36,181 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 3.6 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 53% of NEM's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 6.8 million shares..