Trading Block: Mostly bullish day.  End of selloff in SLV, and everyone is happy again.  Puts enable long-term sentiment.  The beauty of collars.  Citi reverse split and the drop heard ’round the world.

Odd Block: Research in Motion – RIMM – ADV = 92k, does 175k with traders expecting downside bearish trend to continue with sizable put flies going on.  H&R Block – HRB – ADV = 7k, does 30k on the rumor that it may have to buy back billions in failed mortgages.

Around the Block:  More earnings to come: CSCO, Disney, Activision; crude inventories, jobless claims, PPI, CPI.

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Blood, Sweat & Tears this Saturday at the blood drive for Physicians Express in St. Charles.  Come on by.

Options Insider: Look for the explosion of radio content coming to you from the 2011 OIC conference in Savannah Georgia.