Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Evolution Petroleum Corp (EPM), where a total volume of 842 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 84,200 underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 41.3% of EPM's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 203,810 shares..