CYBERXCHANGE VS. SMART ORDERS
One of our most frequently asked questions is, "What’s the difference between CyberXchange and Smart orders?"
Smart orders work from a “snapshot” of the market at the moment you enter the order. It looks at which market participants are available at that instant, ranks them, and tries to get you the best match all the way up to your limit price (if there is one) based on that ranking. Once all the sub-orders from a Smart order have timed out, any remaining unfilled shares are attempted one final time. Shares remaining after the final attempt are canceled.
CyberXchange starts off the same way, by ranking the available participants and attempting to fill your order starting with the best available price, up to and including your limit price (if applicable). However, if any unfilled shares remain, CyberXchange will start Smart routing process again and continue attempting to fill the order for up to 90 seconds (or 35 suborders). As a final attempt, any remaining shares will be routed to ISLD. Shares remaining after the final attempt may be canceled, depending on the timeout settings.
SMART ORDER SETTINGS
CyberTrader allows you to enter Smart Order preferences by clicking Settings > Smart Order Settings in the Stock Box menu.
ECNs and Market Makers can be arranged in order of preference or eliminated from consideration.
These preferences are then used by the Smart order routing logic the next time you send a Smart or CyberXchange order.
How Smart Order Settings are utilized:
• When the initial ranking or
"snapshot" of available participants takes place, preferred ECNs or Market Makers are sorted to the top of their price tier.
• Preferred ECNs will be attempted first after the shares in the original tier list and non-shared-limited Market Makers are
exhausted.
• Eliminated ECNs and Market Makers will not be included in the original
ranking, nor will they be included in the "last chance" attempt to execute against an ECN after preferred ECNs are attempted.
To Add or Eliminate an ECN or Market Maker:
1. Select an ECN ID from the drop-down list, or enter an ECN or Market Maker ID in the Insert field. To add or eliminate ALL ECNs or Market Makers select ECN or MARKET MAKER from the drop-down list.
2. To add the participant to your preferred list, click Add Preference. To add them to your Eliminated list, click Eliminate from Pref. List.
3. To remove participants from the lists, click on the one you want to remove and click Remove Preference or Add to Entire List.
4. Click OK when you are finished setting up your Smart order preferences.
CYBERXCHANGE ORDERS CYBERXCHANGE
CyberTrader’s exclusive CyberXchange order routing venue continuously seeks the best price among the available market participants for a specified period of time.
Order Routing
• Hours: 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET Limit Orders
• CyberXchange Limit orders work almost exactly like Smart Limit orders, with one major difference: CyberXchange will usually cancel unfilled sub-orders after a brief period of time and re-route the remaining shares based on a fresh "snapshot" of the market.
• If a sub-order times out, but there are no other venues available to re-route the order to, the order may remain live. In other words, CyberXchange will generally not cancel one sub-order just to send an identical sub-order.
• CyberXchange orders that do not completely fill will re-route for a maximum of 90 seconds or until 35 sub-orders have been sent. At that time, an attempt will be made to cancel all sub- orders, at which point a final attempt will be made to execute the remaining shares.
• If it takes longer than 5 minutes to receive acknowledgement that all outstanding orders have been rejected or canceled, no final order is sent. The remaining shares will be canceled.
• Final Order: Sent as a limit order at the original price (for short orders on a downtick, it is sent as the better of the limit price or $.01 above the bid price) via the first available mechanism from this list: ISLD Direct, SuperMontage Limit.
• Final Order Timeout: If unfilled, the final order will be canceled after the period of time you specify in the Stock Box Settings > General window for CyberXchange (last).
ECN Orders
• CyberXchange ECN orders are identical to CyberXchange Limit orders, except they will only route sub-orders to direct ECNs.
Market Orders
• CyberXchange Market orders route in much the same way as CyberXchange Limit orders, except, in lieu of a limit price, the fill price will be constrained to 5% off of the best bid/ask price. This helps protect the order from executing too far from the market price.
Order Timeouts
• Sub-orders generated by a CyberXchange order will generally time out (or not) according to your Auto Cancel Timeout settings in the Stock Box Settings > General window. For example, if the Smart server sends a sub-order to ISLD as part of your Smart order, that sub-order will time out according to the ECN timeout setting.
• A few exceptions:
- If the sub-order is removing liquidity from an ECN, it will timeout after 3 seconds.
- If the sub-order is adding liquidity and locking the market, it will timeout after: 15 seconds for ECNs, 5 seconds for SuperMontage, and 6 seconds for SuperMontage Directed.
NOTE Orders will NOT be canceled by CyberTrader if you log off while they are still live. They will remain live, but may be canceled by the exchange at market close, etc. If you log back on with ANY live order, the appropriate user timeout setting will be applied (ECN, SuperMontage, NYSE) at that time.
EXAMPLE You have an NYSE timeout setting of 20 seconds. You launch a CyberXchange limit order to buy 100 XYZ for $1, which is routed to NYSE, and then log off before 20 seconds passes. The order will remain live on NYSE until it is canceled by the exchange or you log on again. If you log on later in the day, the XYZ order will time out 20 seconds after logon.
If you log off and then back on while you have pending CyberXchange sub-order(s), the order will time out according to the Stock Box Auto Cancel settings for that market participant (i.e. if the sub-order is going to ARCA, it will last for the limit of your ECN Timeout setting, disregarding the 90 second/35 sub-
order limit for CyberXchange orders). If you do not log back on, the suborders that were live when you logged off will remain live, but CyberXchange will not continue re-routing any remaining shares.
ECNS ABOUT ECNS
• ECNs are Electronic Communication Networks, which are designed to electronically match Bids and Offers.
• CyberTrader clients have direct access to several ECNs, including ISLD, INCA, ARCA, ATTN, NTRD, BRUT, and BTRD. Each available ECN is described individually in the following sections.
• You may also integrate the book of orders for several ECNs into your Level II window, or open a separate ECN Book window to see the full depth of the book
• Using certain ECNs directly may incur additional fees from the ECNs themselves. If you are unfamiliar with the fee schedules of all ECNs, visit our fee schedule web page at
http://www.cybertrader.com/fees or contact Client Services.
ARCA
Order Routing
• Trades Listed and Nasdaq stocks.
• Uses ARCA's SmartBook logic to find the best price available internally and/or externally by routing the order directly to the market displaying the best price and order/execution ratio (based on % fill history, time, and size shown).
• Limit Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
• Market Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET Order Types
• Limit:
Marketable Limit Orders - Matched with the ARCA Book or preferenced to Market Participants using SmartBook logic. Order is price improved, if available; however, if a better price appears after your order has been routed outside of ARCA, it cannot be re-routed, unless the
preferenced participant declines the order.
Non-marketable Limit Orders - Limit order is posted to the ARCA Book. The best bid and offer in the Book will be displayed on NASDAQ Level II (MMID=ARCA).
• Market: Market orders are matched with the ARCA Book if there is an order(s) at the inside. If ARCA is not at the inside, the order is routed using ARCA's SmartBook logic. Any residual volume will not be routed to the next price level until all quotes at the current best bid offer are exhausted.
• Mid-Peg*: This order type is no longer available for ARCA orders.
• Market-Peg*: Pegs the order price to the ask if buying or to the bid if selling, meaning the order price will automatically adjust as the bid or ask moves until the order executes or the stock trades beyond your limit price. Orders may be adjusted a penny up or down to avoid locking the market.
• Market-Peg Example
o XYZ is currently quoted at 20 bid x 20.05 ask.
o A Market Peg order to buy XYZ with a limit of 20.10, will be submitted at 20.05.
o If the quote changes to 20.05 bid x 20.10 ask, the order price would change to 20.10.
o If the order is not executed, it will not update beyond the limit price and will remain posted at 20.10.
• Primary-Peg*: Pegs the order price to the bid if buying or the ask if selling OTC securities, or the best exchange bid/ask for Listed securities. The order price will automatically adjust as the bid or ask moves until the order executes or the stock trades beyond your limit price.
• Primary-Peg Example
o XYZ is currently quoting at 20 bid x 20.05 ask.
o A primary peg order to buy XYZ with a limit of 20.05, will be submitted at 20.
o If the quote changes to 20.05 bid x 20.10 ask, the order price would change to 20.05.
o If the order is not executed, it will not update beyond the limit price and will remain posted at 20.05.
Time In Force
• Day: Can be entered at any time and expire at the end of the extended trading day (8:00 p.m.
ET)
• IOC (Immediate or Cancel): Order quantity is filled as much as is possible immediately upon routing the order; the remainder is canceled.
Special Conditions
• Discretion*: Allows you to have a displayed price and a discretionary price. You can place the order at the price you’d like to receive with a discretion amount for the maximum/minimum amount you’re willing to go. Available for limit orders only.
EXAMPLE A limit order to buy with a displayed price of 50 and a discretionary price of 50.25 is presented as:
Price = 50 Discretion = 0.25
• Max Floor*: Specifies the reserve size for the order. Must be a round lot equal to or less than the order quantity. Reserve size has no time priority in Level II. Only the displayed portion of the order will have time priority.
EXAMPLE You enter a bid with 5,000 as the total quantity, but 1,000 as the Max Floor value.
Your order will display as 1,000 shares, but if yours is the only bid when an offer arrives for 10,000 shares at your price, your entire 5,000 shares will execute.
However, if 3 other bids for 3,000 shares each were behind you at the same price, only your displayed 1,000 would execute, along with 9,000 shares from the other three bids.
• Peg Diff*: Added to the bid or offer to produce the actual order price. Allows more flexibility in your order executions giving you freedom from tracking prices and helping you stay ahead of the market.
EXAMPLE To peg the offer minus .02, Peg Diff must equal -0.02 (the negative sign is required).
* Features only available when Spec Cond is checked in the Stock Box.
ATTN
Order Handling
• Orders that are not matched in the ATTN Book will be displayed on Level II if the order is for more than 100 shares and at the inside Bid or Ask and if it does not cross or lock the market.
• Hours: 8:05 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. ET Order Types
• Limit: Only limit orders are available through ATTN. The order will not fill at a less favorable price than the limit you set.
Time In Force
• Day: Can be entered at any time and will expire at the end of the extended trading day (6:30 p.m. ET).
• IOC (Immediate or Cancel): Order quantity is filled as much as is possible immediately upon routing the order; the remainder is canceled.
BRUT
Order Handling
• Matches your order any BRUT postings on Level II, if applicable.
• If there is no match on Level II, it will search the BRUT Book for a match.
• If there is no match in the book, your order is posted to the BRUT Book and may post on Level II (MMID=BRUT) if your order is priced at the inside bid or ask and does not cross or lock the market.
• Pegged orders are confined to the BRUT Book and will never seek liquidity through other venues.
• BRUT orders must be "round lots" (i.e., increments of 100)
• Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. ET Order Types
• Limit: Limit orders are supported for Nasdaq, NYSE, and AMEX securities.
• Limit Invisible: Invisible orders are never displayed in the book or on Level II, and therefore cannot lock or cross the market. Available for Nasdaq securities only.
• Market: Market orders are supported for Nasdaq, NYSE, and AMEX securities, but are only available during regular market hours (not pre- or post-market). If the full quantity cannot be matched in the book, remaining shares are routed via the BRUT Liquidity Finder to an alternate destination that is representing a quote at the inside of the market.
• Market-Peg*: Pegs the order price to the ask if buying or to the bid if selling, meaning the order price will automatically adjust as the bid or ask moves until the order executes or the stock trades beyond your limit price. Orders may be adjusted a penny up or down to avoid locking the market.
• Market-Peg Example
o XYZ is currently quoted at 20 bid x 20.05 ask.
o A Market Peg order to buy XYZ with a limit of 20.10, will be submitted at 20.05.
o If the quote changes to 20.05 bid x 20.10 ask, the order price would change to 20.10.
o If the order is not executed, it will not update beyond the limit price and will remain posted at 20.10.
• Primary-Peg*: Pegs the order price to the bid if buying or the ask if selling OTC securities, or the best exchange bid/ask for Listed securities. The order price will automatically adjust as the bid or ask moves until the order executes or the stock trades beyond your limit price.
• Primary-Peg Example
o XYZ is currently quoting at 20 bid x 20.05 ask.
o A primary peg order to buy XYZ with a limit of 20.05, will be submitted at 20.
o If the quote changes to 20.05 bid x 20.10 ask, the order price would change to 20.05.
o If the order is not executed, it will not update beyond the limit price and will remain posted at 20.05.
Time In Force
• Day: Orders may be entered after 8:00 a.m. ET and will expire at the end of extended trading (6:30 p.m. ET)
• IOC (Immediate or Cancel): Portions of the order not filled immediately upon reaching the market are canceled.
Special Conditions
• Max Floor*: Specifies the reserve size for the order. Must be a round lot equal to or less than the order quantity. Reserve size has no time priority in Level II. Only the displayed portion of the order will have time priority.
EXAMPLE You enter a bid with 5,000 as the total quantity, but 1,000 as the Max Floor value.
Your order will display as 1,000 shares, but if yours is the only bid when an offer arrives for 10,000 shares at your price, your entire 5,000 shares will execute.
However, if 3 other bids for 3,000 shares each were behind you at the same price, only your displayed 1,000 would execute, along with 9,000 shares from the other three bids.
• Peg Diff*: Added to the bid or offer to produce the actual order price. Allows more flexibility in your order executions giving you freedom from tracking prices and helping you stay ahead of the market.
EXAMPLE To peg the offer minus .02, Peg Diff must equal -0.02 (the negative sign is required).
* Features only available when Spec Cond is checked in the Stock Box.
BTRD
Order Handling
• The order will try to find a match in the BTRD Book. If a better price is available in the book, then it will target that price.
• If no match is made, the order will post to the BTRD Book. The best bid and ask posting 100 or more shares will post on Level II if it does not cross or lock the market.
• Hours: 7:05 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. ET Order Types
• Limit: Limit orders are supported for Nasdaq, NYSE, and Amex securities. Only 100 share increments are permitted.
• Mid-Peg*: Pegs the order price midway between the bid and ask. Buy orders are rounded down to the nearest penny and sell orders are rounded up to the nearest penny. The order price will automatically adjust as the bid or ask moves until the order executes or the stock trades beyond your limit price.
• Mid-Peg Example
o XYZ is currently quoting at 20 bid x 20.05 ask.
o A Mid Peg order to buy XYZ with a limit of 20.07, will be submitted at 20.02.
o If the quote changes to 20.05 bid x 20.10 ask, the order price would change to 20.07.
o If the order is not executed, it will not update beyond the limit price and will remain posted at 20.07.
• Market-Peg*: Pegs the order price to the ask if buying or to the bid if selling, meaning the order price will automatically adjust as the bid or ask moves until the order executes or the stock trades beyond your limit price. Orders may be adjusted a penny up or down to avoid locking the market.
• Market-Peg Example
o XYZ is currently quoted at 20 bid x 20.05 ask.
o A Market Peg order to buy XYZ with a limit of 20.10, will be submitted at 20.05.
o If the quote changes to 20.05 bid x 20.10 ask, the order price would change to 20.10.
o If the order is not executed, it will not update beyond the limit price and will remain posted at 20.10.
• Primary-Peg*: Pegs the order price to the bid if buying or the ask if selling OTC securities, or the best exchange bid/ask for Listed securities. The order price will automatically adjust as the bid or ask moves until the order executes or the stock trades beyond your limit price.
• Primary-Peg Example
o XYZ is currently quoting at 20 bid x 20.05 ask.
o A primary peg order to buy XYZ with a limit of 20.05, will be submitted at 20.
o If the quote changes to 20.05 bid x 20.10 ask, the order price would change to 20.05.
o If the order is not executed, it will not update beyond the limit price and will remain posted at 20.05.
Time In Force
• Day: At the close of the extended trading session, all orders expire.