Due to a building emergency (power issues), Knight Capital Americas is asking you to seek an alternate destination for the order handling and execution of your OTC, Options and Listed orders until further notice.

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Like a lot of the other guerrilla marketmakers, Citron and Levine got their start through Nasdaq's Small Order Execution System, or SOES. An early response to critics of Nasdaq's voluntary dealer market, SOES allowed orders of 1, 000 shares or fewer to be executed automatically at marketmakers' advertised quotes.

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When you send an order into the marketplace, speed is a big part of best execution.

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