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6190. Compliance with Regulation NMS Plan to Address Extraordinary Market Volatility

A member that is a trading center in an NMS Stock shall establish, maintain and enforce written policies and procedures that are reasonably designed to comply with the requirements of the Regulation NMS Plan to Address Extraordinary Market Volatility (Plan) and specifically to prevent:
(a) the execution of trades at prices that are below the Lower Price Band or above the Upper Price Band for an NMS Stock, except as permitted under the Plan;

6184. Transactions in Exchange-Traded Managed Fund Shares ("NextShares")

(a) Members that effect secondary market transactions otherwise than on an exchange in exchange-traded managed fund shares or "NextShares," as defined under Nasdaq Rule 5745, must report such transactions to a FINRA/Nasdaq Trade Reporting Facility or the Alternative Display Facility in accordance with this Rule and the rules applicable to the trade reporting facility used by the reporting member. Such transactions cannot be reported to the FINRA/NYSE Trade Reporting Facility.

6183. Exemption from Trade Reporting Obligation for Certain Alternative Trading Systems

(a) Pursuant to the Rule 9600 Series, the staff for good cause shown after taking into consideration all relevant factors, may exempt, upon application and subject to specified terms and conditions, a member alternative trading system ("ATS") from the trade reporting obligation under paragraph (b) of Rules 6282, 6380A and 6380B, if such exemption is consistent with the protection of investors and the public interest.

6170. Multiple MPIDs for Alternative Display Facility Participants

(a) Terms used in this Rule 6170 shall have the same meaning as defined in Rule 6220.
(b) Any ADF participant that is required to obtain, or otherwise wishes to use, more than one Market Participant Identifier ("MPID") for purposes of displaying quotes/orders or reporting trades through the ADF must submit a written request, in the form required by FINRA, to, and obtain a

6160. Multiple MPIDs for Trade Reporting Facility Participants

(a) Any Trade Reporting Facility Participant that is required to obtain, or otherwise wishes to use, more than one Market Participant Symbol ("MPID") for purposes of reporting trades to a Trade Reporting Facility must submit a written request, in the form required by FINRA, to, and obtain approval from, FINRA Market Operations for such additional MPID(s).
(b) A Trade Reporting Facility Participant that posts a quotation on a FINRA system and reports to that FINRA system or another FINRA system a trade resulting from such

6150. Obligation to Provide Information

(a) A FINRA member operating in or participating in any FINRA system or facility shall provide information orally, in writing, or electronically (if such information is, or is required to be, maintained in electronic form) to the staff of FINRA when FINRA staff makes an oral, written or electronically communicated request for information relating to a specific FINRA rule, SEC rule, or provision of a joint industry plan (e.g., UTP, CTA and CQA) (as promulgated and amended from time to time).
(b) A failure to comply in a

6140. Other Trading Practices

(a) No member shall execute or cause to be executed or participate in an account for which there are executed purchases of any NMS stock as defined in Rule 600(b)(47) of SEC Regulation NMS ("designated security") at successively higher prices, or sales of any such security at successively lower prices, for the purpose of creating or inducing a false, misleading or artificial appearance of activity in such security or for the purpose of unduly or improperly influencing the market price for such security or for the purpose of establishing a price which does not r