There are well over 50 order types, possibly
100, that brokers can use to place orders on the NYSE, said
Charles Vice, president and chief operating officer of ICE,
which closed its $11 billion acquisition of NYSE Euronext in
November. ICE's futures market has less than 10 order types, he
said.
The structure of equity markets has come under increased
scrutiny in the past couple of months following the release of
Michael Lewis' book "Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt," which
claims the U.S. stock market is rigged, with exchanges giving
special access to high-speed electronic trading firms.
ICE's Chief Executive, Jeff Sprecher, has been critical of the
complex structure of U.S. equity markets, vowing to cut the
amount of order types on the NYSE and calling on the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to end the practice of
exchanges giving rebates to brokers to win their order flow.
"Some things we can do unilaterally, other things have to be
more of the industry or the SEC saying that it needs to be done,
but we are at least retiring 15 order types, so it's a very
small step, but it's a step in the right direction," Vice told a
Commodity Futures Trading Commission industry panel.
(Reporting by John McCrank in New York; Editing by Sofina Mirza-Reid)
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