The “Order Protection Rule,” also called “Rule 611,” or the “trade-through rule,” basically says that investors should receive the same price for a given security regardless of which exchange they’re trading on.
Makes sense, right? We don’t want to pay more—or get less—than another investor for the same stock, just because we’re looking at different exchanges. This rule applies to all NMS stocks (basically all stocks on the NASDAQ and other U.S. exchanges), and it’s been in effect since 2005.
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The maloney act was one of the many financial regulatory
Acts that came between 19:30 Three and nineteen forty this
one being enacted in nineteen thirty eight and covering the
regulation of the otc or over the counter market That's
otc meaning essentially small often barely known company securities Penny
stocks you know trades that happened privately or almost privately
kind of ah private social trading network albeit fifty years
before wired computers for mass consumers Or really a thing
But there was a lot more to the maloney act
and just a small stock exchange for companies living in
loserville The bigger leap of faith brought about by this
act was that it created a kind of hybrid private
public partnership in policing financial dealings It tried to create
a kind of ethical standard and then to figure out
how to get people in the financial industry toe actually
adhere to it And this was the big idea because
it was an open kind of almost admission by the
government that the government really couldn't or wouldn't or just
didn't know how to police You know them sharpie college
educated wall streeters who always seemed to be one hundred
eighty points higher than the g men who were following
them around in the gray suit So today the most
meaningful element that remains of the maloney act is fin
rot That's the financial industry regulatory authority and it basically
has the authority to get all up in the faces
of brokers dealers and anyone else deemed a knowledgeable insider
in the financial world if they behave poorly venera administers
exams and while generally has a kind of big brother
meets fraternity and now sorority kind of vibe such that
everyone is placed on a level playing field when doing
business with everyone from mon pa kettle Teo yoda Yeah
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