Noteworthy Friday Option Activity: GS, ROKU, RYN

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Goldman Sachs Group Inc (the (GS), where a total volume of 33,660 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 3.4 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 110% of GS's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 3.1 million shares..