TRADING BLOCK

Finally a day of action after an unchanged last couple of weeks. Apple destroys Samsung in jury verdict - $1B Verdict - Samsung won basically no judgements - Interesting that the judge disallowed a samsung media player from 2006, that looks just like the iPhone! Groupon can't catch a bid.

ODD BLOCK

Huge Blocks of Calls Trade on EMC - Chasing Deltas

Puts Active on Seagate Technology (STX).

Shield, which has been included since the S&P was created in 1957, has been booted and will be placed by Lyondell Basell, a Dutch chemical company.

XPRESS BLOCK

Sean Fitzgerald discusses a few of the trades that have come across the OX desk recently. ETFs, Spiders and other trades.

LISTENER MAIL

FORUM POST: New OX goodies for Canada?

POSTED BY: Sean Conrad

I love the sound of the new OX goodies that were announced on the last Option Block. This functionality could really help me - but I can't see it. Now that I think about it I've never seen OX Social either.

I hail from Ottawa here in Canada - am I going to have access to these tools? If so - when? I remember hearing that OX social would be rolled out in stages to Canada and other International clients but I don't think that happened - what's going on?

Is there some reason why we can't just use the US site and tools for our accounts?

AROUND THE BLOCK

Not many earnings rolling into the long weekend, except for market mover. Avoid the holiday Vol crush. How do you play Vol?