{"id":3147,"date":"2025-10-17T12:45:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igorsplayground.com\/appcheckr\/noteworthy-thursday-option-activity-ozk-amc-bac\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:45:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:45:02","slug":"noteworthy-thursday-option-activity-ozk-amc-bac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/igorsplayground.com\/appcheckr\/noteworthy-thursday-option-activity-ozk-amc-bac\/","title":{"rendered":"Noteworthy Thursday Option Activity: OZK, AMC, BAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Today, the Russell 3000 index showcased significant options trading activity, particularly in Bank OZK (Symbol: OZK). A total of 7,143 contracts have been traded, which translates to approximately 714,300 underlying shares. This figure represents about 68.2% of OZK&#8217;s average daily trading volume over the past month, which stands at 1.0 million shares. Notably, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/symbol\/?symbol=OZK&amp;month=20260515&amp;type=put&amp;contract=40.00\">$40 strike put option expiring May 15, 2026<\/a> has seen particularly high volume, with 2,090 contracts traded today, equating to around 209,000 underlying shares of OZK. Below is a chart illustrating OZK&#8217;s trailing twelve-month trading history, with the $40 strike highlighted in orange:<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tickertech.net\/pics\/2025\/30619395A31.gif\" alt=\"Loading+chart+\u2014+2025+TickerTech.com\" border=\"0\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. (Symbol: AMC) also experienced a surge in options trading, with a total of 138,987 contracts traded. This represents approximately 13.9 million underlying shares, or about 67.9% of AMC&#8217;s average daily trading volume over the past month, which is 20.5 million shares. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/symbol\/?symbol=AMC&amp;month=20251017&amp;type=call&amp;contract=3.00\">$3 strike call option expiring October 17, 2025<\/a> has garnered particular attention, with 51,685 contracts traded today, representing around 5.2 million underlying shares of AMC. Below is a chart showing AMC&#8217;s trailing twelve-month trading history, with the $3 strike highlighted in orange:<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tickertech.net\/pics\/2025\/30619395A32.gif\" alt=\"Loading+chart+\u2014+2025+TickerTech.com\" border=\"0\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Bank of America Corp (Symbol: BAC) also saw substantial options trading volume today, with 211,246 contracts traded. This equates to approximately 21.1 million underlying shares, or about 63.8% of BAC&#8217;s average daily trading volume over the past month, which is 33.1 million shares. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/symbol\/?symbol=BAC&amp;month=20251107&amp;type=call&amp;contract=55.00\">$55 strike call option expiring November 07, 2025<\/a> has been particularly active, with 28,720 contracts traded today, representing around 2.9 million underlying shares of BAC. Below is a chart depicting BAC&#8217;s trailing twelve-month trading history, with the $55 strike highlighted in orange:<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tickertech.net\/pics\/2025\/30619395A33.gif\" alt=\"Loading+chart+\u2014+2025+TickerTech.com\" border=\"0\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>For those interested in exploring the various available expirations for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/symbol\/ozk\/\">OZK options<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/symbol\/amc\/\">AMC options<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/symbol\/bac\/\">BAC options<\/a>, visit StockOptionsChannel.com.<\/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.preferredstockinvesting.com\/v5\/pages\/resources_newsletter.htm\">Preferred Stock Newsletters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsvideo.com\/symbol\/uone\/\">UONE Videos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.averageannualreturn.com\/snes\/\">SNES Average Annual Return<\/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>Today, the Russell 3000 index showcased significant options trading activity, particularly in Bank OZK (Symbol: OZK). A total of 7,143 contracts have been traded, which translates to approximately 714,300 underlying shares. This figure represents about 68.2% of OZK&#8217;s average daily trading volume over the past month, which stands at 1.0 million shares. Notably, the $40 [&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-3147","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\/3147","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=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/igorsplayground.com\/appcheckr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/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=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igorsplayground.com\/appcheckr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igorsplayground.com\/appcheckr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}