Continental Resources Inc. (CLR)

A stronger dollar put pressure on oil early Friday morning, sending the commodity temporarily off record gains hit earlier in the week, and analysts are fearful price volatility such as this will be the theme of 2018.

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Continental Resources Inc. , where a total of 11,691 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 1.2 million underlying shares.

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