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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