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Is there anything a shareholder can do to encourage the LTSE? Or said another way, is there a mechanism for a shareholder to specify which exchange they are bu

by toufka 5y ago

Is there anything a shareholder can do to encourage the LTSE? Or said another way, is there a mechanism for a shareholder to specify which exchange they are buying stock on? And would traffic on the LTSE help the LTSE? Or is most of the support for the LTSE accomplished on the company side, and at listing time?

eries 5y ago
This is a great question. Let me take it in parts. First off, you're right that the most important place for support is via companies. Ultimately, that's what matters. But you'd be surprised how much voice people have in influencing companies. For example, if you're an employee, I can tell you first hand how closely CEO's and executive teams monitor (for example) what gets asked about at all-hands meetings. Shareholders matter too. Companies want to know what their investors think and many of them have whole "investor relations" departments whose job is, in part, to relay investor sentiment to the rest of the company. In terms of trading, yes, you can specify what exchange your shares trade on. Almost every major broker is a member of LTSE and can route orders to the exchange. As the customer, you're in charge of where your orders get routed, and you're welcome to specify a specific venue. Not every broker supports this right in their web UI, although I've heard that Interactive Brokers (IBKR) does. If you've been following the news about controversies such as "pay for order flow" and such, you might make a connection here. Most retail customers don't specify where their order should be routed and as a result, they lend their voice to many of these industry practices. Because LTSE is not focused on maximizing trading volume, things are a little different on our platform. If you route to LTSE, you can be sure that no intermediary is getting paid for your transaction, and LTSE does not take a trading fee either. As to whether traffic on LTSE helps, I think it does lend a little bit of credibility. If you take the time to tell your broker this is what you want, they will probably notice. Thanks for the thoughtful question!
- KMag 5y ago
  If I specify a particular venue, does Reg NMS still require my order to only be filled if it's within the national best bid-offer (NBBO) range? If not, that would seem to be a big caveat that should be mentioned whenever mentioning that retail inventors can specify a specific venue. (Disclosure: I work on the sell-side, but don't have a Series 7. Certainly, for vanilla orders, Reg NMS requires your broker to route your order for best price. If you're specifying the routing, though, I'll leave it to someone with a Series 7 to explain which Reg NMS protections still apply.)
  - eries 5y ago
    The short answer is "yes" but there's a lot of nuance to it. Reg NMS does not require routing of anything - a very common misunderstanding. Reg NMS does not get you the "best price", it prevents the execution of trades at prices inferior to protected quotations displayed by other exchanges.
arthurcolle 5y ago
youre able to route orders to specific market trading venues. If you open up IBKR and look at the subwindow (forgot the name sorry) that shows realtime orders, you'll see stuff like ARCA and BATS and these are different venues basically. Similarly if you do a simple 10,000 share order for TWLO at 7.50 limit, the advanced order entry system will let you click (probably with a dropdown or something) which venue to route your order to. Personally I'm not really sold on the idea of LTSE. I mean it sounds good I guess, but governance of a public company doesn't start with the venues it is able to be traded on. It starts with the company, or at least with our regulatory bodies (lol imagine that)
- eries 5y ago
  I actually agree with you. Exchanges are regulatory bodies (so-called SROs) in our capital markets system. We think there should be a new one with different incentives to do a good job for companies

by toufka 5y ago

eries 5y ago

This is a great question. Let me take it in parts. First off, you're right that the most important place for support is via companies. Ultimately, that's what matters. But you'd be surprised how much voice people have in influencing companies. For example, if you're an employee, I can tell you first hand how closely CEO's and executive teams monitor (for example) what gets asked about at all-hands meetings. Shareholders matter too. Companies want to know what their investors think and many of them have whole "investor relations" departments whose job is, in part, to relay investor sentiment to the rest of the company. In terms of trading, yes, you can specify what exchange your shares trade on. Almost every major broker is a member of LTSE and can route orders to the exchange. As the customer, you're in charge of where your orders get routed, and you're welcome to specify a specific venue. Not every broker supports this right in their web UI, although I've heard that Interactive Brokers (IBKR) does. If you've been following the news about controversies such as "pay for order flow" and such, you might make a connection here. Most retail customers don't specify where their order should be routed and as a result, they lend their voice to many of these industry practices. Because LTSE is not focused on maximizing trading volume, things are a little different on our platform. If you route to LTSE, you can be sure that no intermediary is getting paid for your transaction, and LTSE does not take a trading fee either. As to whether traffic on LTSE helps, I think it does lend a little bit of credibility. If you take the time to tell your broker this is what you want, they will probably notice. Thanks for the thoughtful question!

KMag 5y ago
If I specify a particular venue, does Reg NMS still require my order to only be filled if it's within the national best bid-offer (NBBO) range? If not, that would seem to be a big caveat that should be mentioned whenever mentioning that retail inventors can specify a specific venue. (Disclosure: I work on the sell-side, but don't have a Series 7. Certainly, for vanilla orders, Reg NMS requires your broker to route your order for best price. If you're specifying the routing, though, I'll leave it to someone with a Series 7 to explain which Reg NMS protections still apply.)
- eries 5y ago
  The short answer is "yes" but there's a lot of nuance to it. Reg NMS does not require routing of anything - a very common misunderstanding. Reg NMS does not get you the "best price", it prevents the execution of trades at prices inferior to protected quotations displayed by other exchanges.

arthurcolle 5y ago

youre able to route orders to specific market trading venues. If you open up IBKR and look at the subwindow (forgot the name sorry) that shows realtime orders, you'll see stuff like ARCA and BATS and these are different venues basically. Similarly if you do a simple 10,000 share order for TWLO at 7.50 limit, the advanced order entry system will let you click (probably with a dropdown or something) which venue to route your order to. Personally I'm not really sold on the idea of LTSE. I mean it sounds good I guess, but governance of a public company doesn't start with the venues it is able to be traded on. It starts with the company, or at least with our regulatory bodies (lol imagine that)

eries 5y ago
I actually agree with you. Exchanges are regulatory bodies (so-called SROs) in our capital markets system. We think there should be a new one with different incentives to do a good job for companies