Sir, While I appreciate the level of market transparency you are trying to achieve by implementing rules that speed up the price reporting process, I question the benefit that market participants will enjoy by shortening the reporting time frame from 15 minutes to 1 minute. I think this is especially the case with smaller trades done typically by retail investors. Our firm usually does government
As part of its Transparency Services improvement initiatives FINRA will re- platform the OTC Reporting Facility (ORF) to a new Linux-based operating system. These changes will include Trade Data Dissemination Service (TDDS) protocol changes, and ORF will begin supporting timestamps up to nanosecond granularity (HH:MM:SS.sssssssss) in accordance with amendments to FINRA’s equity trade reporting
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I think that the proposed reduction to one minute reporting other than help investor protection will create a lot of problems for member firms, specially small firms. I think (and I am sure will happen more with small firms) that the number of errors in ticket generation will increase tremendously. This will then create delays in matching and settling trades (in addition to TRACE violations for
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Transitioning to a 1 minute reporting time frame would make it more expensive for clients and make it harder for small firms like us to truly obtain best execution as we would be limited to only trading through our clearing firm. It’s a horrible idea and needs to be eliminated.
As an AMC GME APE I demand market transparency! Same day reporting is doable with the technology. End PFOF and Ban Dark Pools! Citadel Securities Scandal CEO Ken Griffin should be arrested immediately ORTEX should be releasing information to the public for free Enforce the rules that you already have in order SEC Rule 304(a) (4): Suspension, Limitation, or Revocation to the Exchange Link to rule
The 1 minute rule proposed would be very difficult for small broker dealers to keep, and would represent a major hurdle to our fixed income business. Most small broker dealers as is our case do not have a dedicate trading desk to handle this proposed new 1 minute rule, nor do they have the state of the art software that big firms may have access to. While compliance may be possible, this would
