Thursday, June 30, 2016

Equity Trader Alert #2016 - 146
Nasdaq and BX Pricing Updates Effective July 1st, 2016

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  • Pricing

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Pending filing with the SEC, Friday, July 1, 2016, Nasdaq will implement a new display adding tier, delete a display adding tier, and adjust an existing display adding tier.

New Display Add Tier:


Per Share Executed Liquidity Code
Rebate to Add Displayed Liquidity, Shares Executed at or Above $1.00
Added by Firm
Member firms who
(i) Add greater than 0.10% TCV; and and

(ii) Add Customer, Professional, Firm, Non-NOM Market Maker and/or Broker-Dealer liquidity in Non- Penny Pilot Options of 0.40% or more of total industry ADV in the customer clearing range for Equity and ETF option contracts per day in a month on NOM
$0.0027 A, 7, 8, a, x or y

The add display tier requiring “Minimum of 2 million shares added per day and greater than 0.65% removed” will be updated to:

Per Share Executed Liquidity Code
Minimum of 2 million shares added per day and greater than 0.80% removed $0.0029 A, 7, 8, a, x or y

The following tier will be removed:

Per Share Executed Liquidity Code
    1. Add greater than 0.20% TCV; and
    2. Add Customer, Professional, Firm, Non-NOM Market Maker and/or Broker-Dealer liquidity in Penny Pilot Options and/or Non- Penny Pilot Options of 0.80% or more of total industry ADV in the customer clearing range for Equity and ETF option contracts per day in a month on the Nasdaq Options Market; and
    3. Add Customer, Professional, Firm, Non-NOM Market Maker and/or Broker-Dealer liquidity in Non- Penny Pilot Options of 0.15% or more of total industry ADV in the customer clearing range for Equity and ETF option contracts per day in a month on the Nasdaq Options Market; and
    4. Market-on-Close and Limit-on-Close ("MOC/LOC") orders volume above 0.04% of Consolidated Volume
$0.0030 A, 7, 8, a, x or y

Pending filing with the SEC, Friday, July 1, 2016, BX will discontinue one adding tier and one remove tier:

The follow remove tier will be discontinued:

Shares Executed At or Above $1.00 Per Share Executed Liquidity Code
Rebate to Remove Liquidity
Firms removing at least 0.20% TCV $0.0017 R

The following add tier will be discontinued:

Shares Executed At or Above $1.00 Per Share Executed Liquidity Code
Fee to Add Displayed Liquidity
Firms that add at least 0.10% TCV $0.0019 A or 7 or 8


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