Noteworthy Thursday Option Activity: GS, JWN, GM

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS), where a total volume of 23,675 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 2.4 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 68% of GS's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 3.5 million shares. Especially hi...