Disclosure
of Order Execution and Routing Practices
For
Quarter Ending March 31, 2008
Fortis
Clearing Americas LLC has prepared this report pursuant to a U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission rule requiring all brokerage firms to make publicly
available quarterly reports on their order routing practices. The report
provides information on the routing of "non-directed orders." Directed orders are customer orders that the
customer specifically instructed the broker or dealer to route to a particular
venue for execution. A non-directed order means any customer order other than a
directed order. For these non-directed
orders, Fortis Clearing Americas LLC does not select the execution venue on
behalf of its customers. For each
section, this report identifies the venues most often used by customers and
sets forth the percentage of various types of orders routed to the venues.
Order
Policy Disclosure
FCA
executes a portion of its stock activity utilizing various Electronic
Communications Networks ("ECN") and is subject to each ECN's
published broker-dealer pricing schedule. These schedules convey a credit to
broker dealer customers for trades, which when entered, add liquidity to the
ECN. The current credit amounts are listed below:
|
Electronic Communications Network |
Credit (cents per share) |
|
Archipelago |
(0.002) |
|
NASDAQ |
(0.0024) |
In addition,
the Island ECN shares market data revenue with its customers at a rate
determined by the volume of trades printed by the ECN and total market data
revenue.
Summary Statistics:
Non-directed orders as percentage of total customer orders 100.00%
Market orders
as percentage of total non-directed orders 4.31%
Limit orders
as percentage of total non-directed orders 48.15%
Other orders
as percentage of total non-directed orders 0.02%
Venues
Receiving Significant Percentage of Total Non-Directed Orders:
1. NYSE Routes
65.88%
Market Types 17.70%
Limit Types 82.28%
Other Types 0.02%
2. OCO Routes
11.13%
Market Types 1.50%
Limit Types 98.50%
Other Types 0.00%
3. AMEX Routes 10.63%
Market Types 3.24%
Limit Types 96.76%
Other Types 0.00%
4. ISLD Routes
8.63%
Market Types 4.71%
Limit Types 95.29%
Other Types 0.00%
5. ARCA Routes
3.73%
Market Types 2.57%
Limit Types 97.43%
Other Types 0.00%
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