{"id":65515,"date":"2025-12-19T19:26:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65515\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T19:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:26:48","slug":"notable-friday-option-activity-alb-mu-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65515\/","title":{"rendered":"Notable Friday Option Activity: ALB, MU, ERIE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the underlying components of the S&amp;P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Albemarle Corp. (Symbol: ALB), where a total of 74,960 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 7.5 million underlying shares.  That amounts to about 228.2% of ALB&#8217;s average daily trading volume over the past month of 3.3 million shares.  Particularly high volume was seen for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/symbol\/?symbol=ALB&amp;month=20260116&amp;type=call&amp;contract=155.00\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$155 strike call option expiring January 16, 2026<\/a>, with 28,209 contracts trading so far today, representing approximately 2.8 million underlying shares of ALB.  Below is a chart showing ALB&#8217;s trailing twelve month trading history, with the $155 strike highlighted in orange:<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/25926655641.gif\" alt=\"Loading+chart+\u2014+2025+TickerTech.com\" border=\"0\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMicron Technology Inc. (Symbol: MU) saw options trading volume of 388,294 contracts, representing approximately 38.8 million underlying shares or approximately 147.4% of MU&#8217;s average daily trading volume over the past month, of 26.3 million shares.<br \/>\nParticularly high volume was seen for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/symbol\/?symbol=MU&amp;month=20251219&amp;type=call&amp;contract=265.00\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$265 strike call option expiring December 19, 2025<\/a>, with 28,659 contracts trading so far today, representing approximately 2.9 million underlying shares of MU.  Below is a chart showing MU&#8217;s trailing twelve month trading history, with the $265 strike highlighted in orange:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/25926655642.gif\" alt=\"Loading+chart+\u2014+2025+TickerTech.com\" border=\"0\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd Erie Indemnity Co. (Symbol: ERIE) saw options trading volume of 1,751 contracts, representing approximately 175,100 underlying shares or approximately 113.4% of ERIE&#8217;s average daily trading volume over the past month, of 154,370 shares.<br \/>\nParticularly high volume was seen for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/symbol\/?symbol=ERIE&amp;month=20260618&amp;type=call&amp;contract=250.00\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$250 strike call option expiring June 18, 2026<\/a>, with 866 contracts trading so far today, representing approximately 86,600 underlying shares of ERIE.  Below is a chart showing ERIE&#8217;s trailing twelve month trading history, with the $250 strike highlighted in orange:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/25926655643.gif\" alt=\"Loading+chart+\u2014+2025+TickerTech.com\" border=\"0\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor the various different available expirations for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/symbol\/alb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ALB options<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/symbol\/mu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MU options<\/a>,  or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/symbol\/erie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ERIE options<\/a>,  visit StockOptionsChannel.com.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nslideshow.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin:0; display:inline; padding-right: 4px\"\/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockoptionschannel.com\/slideshows\/call-options-put-options\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Today&#8217;s Most Active Call &amp; Put Options of the S&amp;P 500 \u00bb<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\tAlso see:<br \/>\n\t\u0095 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.averageannualreturn.com\/ngl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NGL Average Annual Return<\/a><br \/>\n\t\u0095 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.holdingschannel.com\/13f\/on\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ON 13F Filers<\/a><br \/>\n\t\u0095 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.holdingschannel.com\/13f\/efx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EFX 13F Filers<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body__disclaimer\">The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among the underlying components of the S&amp;P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Albemarle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-65515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}