Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Academy Sports & Outdoors Inc (ASO), where a total volume of 8,243 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 824,300 underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 54.1% of ASO's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 1.5 million shares..