The new rules, called the Regulation National Market System, require trade orders to be routed to the exchange with the best price.
Institutions will be able to put large block-trade orders into the system safe in the knowledge that no information about their intentions will leak into the market before the order has been executed.
Beginning today, all trade orders are supposed to be routed to whatever exchange offers the best price, meaning markets like the NYSE Group 's Big Board could lose share to smaller regional exchanges and electronic networks.
Beginning today, all trade orders are supposed to be routed to whatever exchange offers the best price, meaning markets like the NYSE Group 's (nyse: NYX - news - people ) Big Board could lose share to smaller regional exchanges and electronic networks.
It makes fewer mistakes: no misheard orders or illegible trade tickets.
It took only a matter of months for the financial meltdown in 2008 to spread to the real economy, which prompted an overnight crash in international trade volumes, as production orders were terminated, shutting down operations throughout supply chains across the globe.
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Ferguson attended trade shows and got some wholesale orders.
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If I understand the report correctly, the agencies say a mutual fund company using (gasp) an algorithm to trade dumped a bunch of sell orders on the futures market, which caused a liquidity crisis that took down the market.
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He says many ETF firms court high-frequency traders, which help provide the buy and sell orders that can make ETFs easier to trade for other investors.
And this week it won a major victory when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted (albeit narrowly) to approve Regulation NMS, which includes new trade-through-rules that require execution of orders even if it means going to rival exchanges to do so.
After heavy selling all morning, trade data show the market began to be flooded with sell orders as large as 12 contracts at a time while buy orders were less than half that level.
If Apple is buying between 400 million and 500 million 4 gigabit NAND flash memory chips from Samsung, as reported in the trade press, that probably represents 40% of Apple's total orders, Handy figures.
We set stop-loss orders on our open trades to keep our maximum loss on each trade to 8% or so.
But trade union official Antonis Dalakogiorgos was quoted as saying that seamen would resist the government orders.
Monthly orders will reach between 700, 000 and 800, 000 units, the trade paper reported.
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The Amicus trade union says the announcement "causes enormous concern" and blames the government for the drop in orders.
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