Wednesday Oct. 30 End-to-End Testing

Firms that connect to OneChicago via CBOEDirect may participate in operational testing this Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. CST until 12:00 noon.  All trading activity will go through a complete clearing cycle.  Firms that connect via GLOBEX will not participate in trade entry.   Instead, OneChicago will inject trades in behalf of firms already registered for testing.  All firms may conduct post trade processing until 1:00 p.m. CST.

The following corporate events will be effected:

Bank of America Corp                Integral 3-for-1 Stock Split

Home Depot                              Non-Integral 3-for-2 Stock Split

Merck & Co., Inc.                       Extraordinary Dividend $1.00

Saturday Nov. 2 End-to-End Testing

Firms that connect to OneChicago via CBOEDirect or GLOBEX may participate this Saturday from 9:00 a.m. CST until 12:00 noon.  All trading activity will go through a complete clearing cycle.

Please view the attached notice for more details.

Thank you.