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Regulation and Compliance
July 28, 2005
Contact:  Amex Reports
Ed Cook - 212-306-1748
NASD Information
Gene DeMaio - 212-306-1196
Gene Barkey - 212-306-1869

Reg 2005-36 Regulation
Trading Reports and Data

 
Questions have recently been raised as to trading reports and other data that is available to specialist units.

Specialists and other members can obtain a number of specialized reports through the Amex Online Report System ("AORS") which can be accessed on one of the IDCE terminals located either on the Trading Floor or in the DK room. The following reports are available to specialists on a daily basis:

  • Options Specialist Final Contracts
  • Equities As Of Ticket Report
  • Firm Adjustments Report
  • Merged Order Log SPECIALIST Sequence
  • Open Order Report
  • Adds and Outs Report
  • Trade Comparison (BLOCK Trades)
  • Trade Comparison (T+1 3 up Report)
  • Limit Order Discrepancy Report
  • Firm Corrections Report
  • IDCE Processed Adjustments
  • Option Forced Specialist Reports
Additionally, the following reports are available to all clearing member organizations from SIAC:

File NameAutoroute ID
Amex Equities End of Day MRO - Amex Equities that were executed throughout the day01010618
Amex Equities Traddate uncompared MRO - Amex Equities traddate uncompared data01010617
Amex Equites Stepouts MRO - Stepout trades01011075
Amex Equities Advisories and Uncompareds MRO - All Advisories and Uincompareds still in the system 01010609
Amex Equity Activity Log RPT - All Equity Activity for traddate01010616
Amex Option Final Contracts RPT- ALL Amex Options that were compared, uncompared and advisories 01180072
Amex Final CUAR MRO - Compared, Uncompared, Advisories and Rejects for trade date01180303
Amex Merged Order Report - Equities and Options01010523
Amex Merged Order Report - Equities and Options01010533
Amex Merged Order Report - Options Only01010529
Amex Merged Order Log with Bars MRO - Equities and Options01010957
Amex Merged Order Log MRO - Equities and Options01012391
Amex Open Order MRO - Firms Open Orders Equities and Options01010106
Amex Limit Order Reconciliation RPT - Limit Order Reconciliation Equities and Options 01010345
Amex AS of Status for Options RPT01180509
AMEX AOF Reports - Adds, Outs, Adjustments, Open Orders01010571
AMEX Oddlots MRO01210310
Amex Auto-ex MRO - Option Only01180306

Finally, the NASD Amex Regulation Division ("NASD") provides information as to the following surveillance "alerts" (i.e., trading activity that appears to be violative of a particular rule) to specialists on a monthly basis:

  • ITS Locked/Crossed Markets - situations when a specialist "locks" or "cross-locks" the NBBO of another ITS participant without the issuance of an ITS commitment
  • ITS Trade Through - situations when a specialist initiates the purchase or sale of an ITS eligible security on the Amex at a price inferior to the NBBO without the issuance of an ITS commitment
  • ITS Executable Orders Unexecuted - situations where the specialist fails to execute an incoming ITS commitment at the displayed bid or offer
  • ITS Pre-Opening - situations where the specialist fails to issue a pre-opening notification to ITS as required
  • Options Firm Quote - situations where the specialist failed to give an order the price displayed upon receipt
  • Options Executable Orders Unexecuted - situations where the specialist failed to execute and executable order
  • Options Limit Order Display - failure to display a limit order that improves the ABBO on timely basis
  • Options trading ahead - situations where the specialist trades ahead of a customer order
  • Linkage Locked/Crossed Markets - situations when a specialist "locks" or "cross-locks" the NBBO of another linkage participant without sending a linkage order
  • Linkage trade Through - situations when a specialist initiates an options purchase or sale on the Amex at a price inferior to the NBBO without the sending a linkage order
  • Equities/ETF Freezes - situations where the specialist manually freezes the book and execution freezes of 20 seconds or greater
The NASD will shortly begin providing monthly summary statistics on the following:
  • Equity Trading Ahead
  • Equity Firm Quote
  • Equity Executable Orders Unexecuted
  • Equity Limit Order Display
  • Linkage Firm Quote
If you have any questions regarding Amex reports, please contact Ed Cook at 212-306-1748. If you have any questions regarding NASD information, please contact Gene DeMaio at 212-306-1196 or Gene Barkey at 212-306-1869.