RULE 605 AND RULE 606 EXECUTION QUALITY
Rule 605
Rule 605 requires market centers that execute orders in national-market system (NMS) securities to publish monthly reports that
measure execution quality.
To facilitate comparisons across market centers, the Rule sets forth execution quality criteria (such as effective spread, rate
of price improvement and disimprovement, fill rates, and speed of execution). The Rule also prescribes the manner in which the
execution criteria are to be calculated. The resulting statistical information is categorized by individual security, by order
type (e.g., market and inside-the-quote limit), and by order size (e.g., 100-499 share orders). SEC believed that the public
disclosure of uniform statistics would allow for meaningful comparison of execution quality and would spur more vigorous
competition among execution service providers.
Format of Monthly Reports and Procedures for Making Reports Publicly Available:
KNIGHT CAPITAL AMERICAS, L.P. RULE 605 REPORTS
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KNIGHT CAPITAL MARKETS, L.L.C. RULE 605 REPORTS
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KNIGHT EQUITY MARKETS, L.P. RULE 605 REPORTS
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*On January 1, 2011, Knight Equity Markets, L.P. and Knight Capital Markets, L.L.C. combined to form Knight Capital Americas, L.P.
**Knight Equity Markets, L.P.'s statistics include transactions in securities listed on NASDAQ
effected through Knight Match, an alternative trading system, and Knight Capital Markets L.L.C.'s
statistics include transactions in securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange and American
Stock Exchange effected through Knight Match that are eligible for Rule 605 reporting.
This page contains the definitions for the data displayed in Rule 605
reports and download files provided by Knight Equity Markets, L.P.* (NITE
[Market Participant ID]) and Knight Capital Markets, L.L.C.(TRIM [Market
Participant ID]). The files are updated every month on or around the 25th
of each month, reflecting execution quality for trades reported on NITE
and TRIM for the previous calendar month end.
The download files are available in zip format, which contains an ASCII
text file. The .zip files use WinZip technology to compress the files.
To view these files you must have Winzip software.
The downloadable files can be found on the Knight Capital Group, Inc., website at www.knight.com.
Additional information about the Rule 605 reports:
Disclaimer
for SEC Rule 605