Noteworthy Thursday Option Activity: BTU, XOM, OSCR

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Peabody Energy Corp (BTU), where a total of 13,727 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 1.4 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 50.7% of BTU's average daily trading volume over the past month of 2.7 million shares..