{"id":2222,"date":"2025-10-01T21:19:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igorsplayground.com\/appcheckr\/noteworthy-wednesday-option-activity-biib-oxy-bsx\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:19:20","slug":"noteworthy-wednesday-option-activity-biib-oxy-bsx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/igorsplayground.com\/appcheckr\/noteworthy-wednesday-option-activity-biib-oxy-bsx\/","title":{"rendered":"Noteworthy Wednesday Option Activity: BIIB, OXY, BSX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n    Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, today\u2019s options trading volume has shown significant activity, particularly in Biogen Inc (Symbol: BIIB). A total of 7,540 contracts have been traded, which translates to approximately 754,000 underlying shares. This figure represents about 45.9% of BIIB&#8217;s average daily trading volume over the past month, which stands at 1.6 million shares. <\/p>\n<p>    Notably, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/symbol\/?symbol=BIIB&amp;month=20251017&amp;type=put&amp;contract=137.00\">$137 strike put option expiring October 17, 2025<\/a> has seen especially high volume, with 872 contracts traded today, equating to around 87,200 underlying shares of BIIB. Below is a chart illustrating BIIB&#8217;s trailing twelve-month trading history, with the $137 strike highlighted in orange:<\/p>\n<p>\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tickertech.net\/pics\/2025\/34494088891.gif\" alt=\"Loading+chart+\u2014+2025+TickerTech.com\" border=\"0\"\/>\n    <\/p>\n<p>    In addition, Occidental Petroleum Corp (Symbol: OXY) has also experienced a surge in options trading, with 43,204 contracts traded thus far today. This volume represents approximately 4.3 million underlying shares, accounting for a substantial 45.8% of OXY&#8217;s average daily trading volume over the past month, which is 9.4 million shares. <\/p>\n<p>    The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/symbol\/?symbol=OXY&amp;month=20251010&amp;type=put&amp;contract=43.50\">$43.50 strike put option expiring October 10, 2025<\/a> has attracted particular attention, with 4,008 contracts traded today, representing about 400,800 underlying shares of OXY. Below is a chart depicting OXY&#8217;s trailing twelve-month trading history, with the $43.50 strike highlighted in orange:\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tickertech.net\/pics\/2025\/34494088892.gif\" alt=\"Loading+chart+\u2014+2025+TickerTech.com\" border=\"0\"\/>\n    <\/p>\n<p>    Furthermore, Boston Scientific Corp. (Symbol: BSX) has recorded an impressive options volume of 49,800 contracts today. This volume translates to approximately 5.0 million underlying shares, which is about 45.4% of BSX&#8217;s average daily trading volume over the past month, totaling 11.0 million shares. <\/p>\n<p>    The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/symbol\/?symbol=BSX&amp;month=20251010&amp;type=call&amp;contract=98.00\">$98 strike call option expiring October 10, 2025<\/a> has seen particularly high activity, with 20,686 contracts traded today, representing around 2.1 million underlying shares of BSX. Below is a chart showing BSX&#8217;s trailing twelve-month trading history, with the $98 strike highlighted in orange:\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tickertech.net\/pics\/2025\/34494088893.gif\" alt=\"Loading+chart+\u2014+2025+TickerTech.com\" border=\"0\"\/>\n    <\/p>\n<p>    For various available expirations for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/symbol\/biib\/\">BIIB options<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/symbol\/oxy\/\">OXY options<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/symbol\/bsx\/\">BSX options<\/a>, visit StockOptionsChannel.com.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dividendchannel.com\/nslideshow.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin:0; display:inline; padding-right: 4px\"\/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/slideshows\/call-options-put-options\/\">Today&#8217;s Most Active Call &amp; Put Options of the S&amp;P 500 \u00bb<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<h5>Also see:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.topdividends.com\/dx-stock-predictions\/\">DX Stock Predictions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.holdingschannel.com\/insider-buying\/alr-insider-buying\/\">ALR Insider Buying<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketcaphistory.com\/jbi\/\">JBI market cap history<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"body__disclaimer\">The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, today\u2019s options trading volume has shown significant activity, particularly in Biogen Inc (Symbol: BIIB). A total of 7,540 contracts have been traded, which translates to approximately 754,000 underlying shares. This figure represents about 45.9% of BIIB&#8217;s average daily trading volume over the past month, which stands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-options"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/igorsplayground.com\/appcheckr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/igorsplayground.com\/appcheckr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/igorsplayground.com\/appcheckr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igorsplayground.com\/appcheckr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igorsplayground.com\/appcheckr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/igorsplayground.com\/appcheckr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igorsplayground.com\/appcheckr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/igorsplayground.com\/appcheckr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igorsplayground.com\/appcheckr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igorsplayground.com\/appcheckr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}