The Secondary Market, Equity Trading, & Dispute Resolution Flashcards
This deck focuses on terms and concepts relating to the secondary market, equity trading, and industry dispute resolution.
By what date are member firms required to send trade confirmations?
Either on the day of or prior to trade settlement.
This includes trades that settle the same day (cash settlement.)
Within brokerage operations, what is the old name for the location where retail stock orders would be received?
Wire room
From here, the operations group would transmit orders to the right markets. With electronic trading, this largely has been superceded.
Within brokerage operations, what group calculates settlement dates, records all client transactions, and confirms statement printing?
Purchase and sales department
What specialized part of a dealer operation handles all stock splits, redemptions, mergers, and tender offers?
Re-org department
The reorganization department and clearing firms are the two elements of broker operations that technology hasn’t made obsolete.
Define:
Disclosure of Capacity
On every trade confirmation, the dealer has to indicate if he acted as an agent only, meaning he took the order from the customer, or as a principal, meaning he acted on behalf of a customer in a discretionary account.
On what schedule are firms required to send customer statements?
At least quarterly if no trades have taken place, and monthly when there is trading activity.
Who can request a firm’s most recent balance sheet?
A financial condition disclosure can be requested by any customer of the firm or any other dealer who does business with the firm.
Which member department handles all applications for credit?
Margin department
Which department actually prints and mails the confirmation to the customer?
Purchase and sales
What is a reclamation?
A reclamation occurs if a dealer accepts a delivery as good, only later to find out it was a bad delivery. In this situation the securities can be sent back to the selling broker-dealer in order to fix the issue.
What type of open orders will be reduced on the morning of the ex-dividend date?
Buy Limits, Sell Stops, and Sell Stop Limits
All orders that are entered at or below the market are adjusted downwards on the morning of the ex-dividend date.
Regular way settlement for corporate bonds
T + 1
Regular way settlement for municipal bonds
T + 1
Regular way settlement for agency securities
T + 1
Regular way settlement for equities
T + 1
Regular way settlement for Treasuries
T + 1
Regular way settlement for listed option contracts
T + 1
When a written trade confirmation must be given or sent to a customer
At or before the completion of the transaction (settlement)
The capacity shown on a confirmation when the shares are sold from the inventory of the broker-dealer
Principal
The capacity shown on a confirmation when the broker has arranged a trade between a buyer and seller
Agent
Compensation charged when a dealer sells shares from inventory
Mark-up
Compensation charged when a dealer purchases shares for inventory
Mark-down
Compensation charged when a broker transacts an order on a client’s behalf
Commission
Standard trading unit of equity securities
Round lot (100 shares)
Securities that have met the minimum requirements to trade on an exchange
Listed securities
Responsible for maintaining an orderly market in the stocks for which he is responsible on the NYSE floor. Also referred to as the specialist.
Designated Market Maker
Order that is executed immediately at the current price, and has priority over all other orders
Market order
An order that is entered to protect a profit or prevent a loss
Stop order
Can be executed only at the specified price or better
Limit order
Regulates short-selling of equity securities; mandates a locate requirement
Regulation SHO
The trading volume from institutional orders executed on private exchanges that are unavailable to the public
Dark pool liquidity
Prohibited practice of not doing business at the quoted price
Backing away
The approximate value of a security, provided for information only
Nominal quotation
A price at which a municipal securities dealer states its potential willingness to purchase securities
Workable bid
The FINRA policy that serves as a guideline for fair markups, markdowns and commissions
5% Markup Policy
The best bid and best asked price in Nasdaq
The inside market
A market that matches buyers and sellers, as on the floor of the NYSE
Auction market
The process of acting as dealer by standing ready to buy or sell securities from inventory and making money from the spread, as on NASDAQ
Market making
Over-the-counter, negotiated-price trading of exchange-traded securities
Third market trade
A type of alternative trading system (ATS) that trades listed stocks and other exchange-traded products, generally between broker dealers and institutions
ECN (Electronic Communications Network)
The U.S. stock exchange where trades are completed over-the-counter through a network of dealers with no physical location in place
NASDAQ
Quoting service for securities that do not meet listing requirements of other exchanges; has no listing standards
Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board
Occurs when a company no longer meets the listing standards of an exchange
De-listing
An interdealer electronic quotation system for stocks that are not listed on national securities exchanges and do not report to the Consolidated Tape
Bulletin Board
The first day that a buyer buys stock without a dividend
Ex-dividend date
The date on which a corporation pays a dividend to shareholders of record
Payable date
The last day a buyer can buy stock and receive the dividend
Business day before the ex-date
When the ex-dividend date happens relative to the record date for regular way trades
1 business day before record date updated for Sept. 5, 2017, rule amendment
Order that protects a profit or limits a loss in a short stock position
Buy stop order
Order that protects a profit or limits a loss in a long stock position
Sell stop order
Orders that are entered below the current market price
Buy limits, sell stops and sell stop limit orders
Orders that are entered above the current market price
Sell limits, buy stops and buy stop limit orders
Becomes a market order when triggered
Stop order
The transaction that activates a stop order
Trigger
The price after the trigger in a stop order
Execution or market price
Orders that are not to be reduced by a cash dividend
DNR
Order that is to be executed immediately in its entirety
Fill-or-Kill
Order that is to be executed immediately; partial execution is acceptable, remainder is canceled
Immediate-or-cancel