Trading

"The Commission’s analysis about the forgone price improvement, the so-called 'competitive shortfall,' ignores the fact that the current market is not static"

"The proposing release acknowledges that wholesalers do generally provide some price improvement relative to national securities exchanges. So what is the need for the proposed rule, ...

"The proposal would implement a modernized, more-flexible definition for round lots"

"The proposal appears to be a reasonable attempt to address deficiencies of the current Rule 605, but the Commission will still need input from market ...

"The changes to the minimum tick size make updating the access fees more urgent, because if the fees stay the same while the minimum tick ...

"While I do not necessarily agree with all parts of the proposal, it will commence a healthy process of public comment necessary to appropriately improve ...

"A concentrated group of wholesalers earns significant revenues from this market. They’re willing to pay for this order flow, but as the release notes, investors ...

"The current tick size and access fees were both adopted as part of Regulation National Market System in 2005, known as Regulation NMS.  Updates to ...

This SEC proposal would adopt variable minimum pricing increments for the quoting and trading of NMS stocks, reduce the access fee caps, and enhance the ...

Small-cap IPOs are increasingly being affected by the "ramp-and-dump" schemes