Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Costco Wholesale Corp (NASD: COST), where a total volume of 41,590 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 4.2 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 167.3% of COST’s average daily trading volume over the past month, of 2.5 million shares.