Noteworthy Wednesday Option Activity: WMT, DE, PYPL

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Walmart Inc (WMT), where a total volume of 99,862 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 10.0 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 65.6% of WMT's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 15.2 million shares..