Bats recently filed a proposal with the SEC to provide brokers with a market-on-close (MOC) order type that would provide them with the closing price auctions on the NASDAQ and New York Stock Exchange, for stocks listed on those exchanges, but with lower execution fees.

We’ve released our insights on the Tick Size Pilot (TSP). We’ve analyzed our data to assess market structure changes as a result of the pilot, as well as the performance of our algorithmic strategies.

This week an article in the Wall Street Journal, “High-Frequency Traders Fall on Hard Times - Once- lucrative business is now fighting unfavorable market conditions, brutal competition and rising costs”, paints a picture where high frequency trading is no longer the business that it used to be due to less volatility in the market and access to speed for those willing to pay.

As we embark upon 2017, we are excited to unveil our new brand identity with the launch of our new website and logo.

Algorithmic Management Systems enable broker-dealers to solidify buy side relationships and capture order flow. For the last several years, the buy side has been shifting their trading flows from the bulge-bracket firms...

As an independent agency broker-dealer, and provider of tools to assist other broker-dealers in routing, execution, pre- and post-trade compliance and risk monitoring, we have a significant interest in ensuring that the fees exchanges charge for access and connectivity services are fair and equitable, and allow for the most orderly, efficient and competitive markets possible.