Monday, August 4, 2025

Equity Trader Alert #2025 - 52
UPDATE IN TIMING: Nasdaq Introduces Purge Ports

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  • New Functionality

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As previously announced in ETA 2024-63, The Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq), Nasdaq BX, and Nasdaq PSX introduced Purge Ports to allow the ability to cancel open orders and disable/re-enable order entry. The initial implementation only included the ability to cancel open orders. The exchanges will now be rolling out the ability to disable/re-enable order entry on a given port.

Order entry disablement and enablement on purge ports will be made available on an exchange-by-exchange basis as follows:

PSX: August 25th

BX: September 3rd

Nasdaq and RASH/FIX: September 8th 

Users are currently able to order production ports and can coordinate with Nasdaq Trading Services to certify new ports for both NTF and production.

Testing Opportunities

Testing is currently available in the Nasdaq Testing Facility (NTF) and Saturday UAT production testing will be available on August 9th.

Please refer to the Specifications Page for more information.



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