Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Qiagen NV (QGEN), where a total volume of 5,610 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 561,000 underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 51.6% of QGEN's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 1.1 million shares..

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