The NASDAQ Stock Market

Overview

NASDAQ offers superior technology and trading efficiency for all U.S. equities in addition to offering innovative data products to support the NASDAQ equity market. NASDAQ is an automatic execution venue that increases your speed of execution and provides unsurpassed capacity that ensures your quote updates and orders get processed nearly instantaneously. In addition, NASDAQ’s value-added products and services provide the complete package for your U.S. equity trading.

Trading versatility
Competitive pricing
Speed
Access to deep pools of liquidity
Market transparency through market data products

Superior Technology

In an environment when milliseconds matter and best ex is paramount, firms shouldn’t trust in anything less that the most reliable trading platform. NASDAQ is renowned for its high performance technology and has proven reliability with 99.99+% uptime. What’s more, firms count on NASDAQ for unsurpassed speed and tested capacity to execute trades quickly and efficiently.

Access to Deep Liquidity

The Numbers are Clear: Market Volume Statistics and Reports

Innovative Market Data

NASDAQ OMX Global Data Products is focused on creating innovative data products that provide unsurpassed market transparency to institutional, retail and individual investors. Product offerings include real-time data feeds, web-based reports and plug-and-play technology for instant access to market data.

Real-Time Data Feeds

For firms that demand the lowest latency products, NASDAQ OMX offers a variety of direct access data feed products for equities from its NASDAQ market center system including:

Please refer to the U.S. Direct connectivity or extranet providers list for the access options to the NASDAQ OMX data centers. Please refer to the Data Products Specifications page for technical interface information for NASDAQ direct data feed products.

Web-Based Products

We have an extensive offering of interactive web applications, including inbound data entry interfaces as well as graphical display products to ease customer technology requirements and allow the information to reach the end-customers more quickly. . For more information about our web-based product offerings, please visit the Direct Web Products page.

Reports

NASDAQ OMX offers a variety of reports via a secured website and secured FTP server giving customers an opportunity to increase profits through unsurpassed market transparency. For more information about our report product offerings, please visit the Reports page.

To subscribe to any of our market data products please contact your NASDAQ OMX Global Data Products Account Manager at +1 301 978 5307 or visit the Global Data Products Administration page to complete the appropriate agreements and forms.

Who Can Participate

NASDAQ market makers and order-entry firms can become a NASDAQ market participant.
Your firm needs to have connectivity to NASDAQ.

Connectivity

Firms can opt to connect via one of several connectivity options:

To order ports, please complete the Port Request Form and contact NASDAQ Subscriber Services with questions at +1 212 231 5180.

NASDAQ OMX Co-Location

NASDAQ OMX Co-Location Services offers subscribers a unique opportunity to place their own trading systems within NASDAQ OMX data centers. Through our primary data center, firms can access all five of NASDAQ's U.S. Markets.

The NASDAQ Stock Market
NASDAQ OMX BX
The NASDAQ Options Market
NASDAQ OMX PHLX
NASDAQ OMX Futures Exchange

Close proximity to all NASDAQ OMX U.S.-based market platforms significantly reduces message latencies by as much as 4.6 milliseconds and network connection costs. Contact Kristen Pross at +1 212 401 8924 or Stacie Swanstrom at +1 301 978 8101 for more information on how your firm can benefit from Co-Location.

Market Structure

The NASDAQ Stock Market is a price-time priority model, where the execution logic is fair and transparent for all market participants. All displayed limit orders are treated equally and executed in the order in which they were received at the same price. Non-displayed shares are executed after displayed shares in the order in which they were received at that price. Visit our Market Structure page to learn more.