Noteworthy Thursday Option Activity: OXY, NUE, SPHR

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Occidental Petroleum Corp (OXY), where a total of 78,229 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 7.8 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 73.5% of OXY's average daily trading volume over the past month of 10.6 million shares..