The multi-week period following the end of each quarter when most public companies release their earnings reports is known as earnings season. Wall Street analysts, financial media and investors often eagerly anticipate reports from many major firms during earnings season and monitor how they might impact individual stocks and economy-wide narratives.
Boston Stock Exchange (BSE) specialists effecting transactions in NYSE securities through ECNs, or Nasdaq securities through the UTP Plan, from terminals located on the floor of the BSE, are effecting transactions on the floor of the BSE for purposes of NASD Rules 1032(f) and 1060.<br/>
Why do we engage with scammers? What makes one person more likely to engage than the next? Of those that engage, what makes someone more likely to lose money? On this episode, we dig into the research on these important questions with three academics in the field.
The ways in which people communicate have changed with advancements in technology, and so have the tactics of “cold calling” boiler rooms. Today’s boiler rooms go beyond the telephone to contact potential investors, including pitching through messaging apps and social media. Regardless of the method of contact, the scammer’s goal and many of the red flags are the same.
Options are complex instruments that can play a number of different roles within an investment portfolio, but buying and selling options can be risky, and trading the products requires specific approval from an investor’s brokerage firm. Equity options are derivative contracts that give the purchaser the right, and the seller the obligation, to buy or sell, a security at a fixed price within a specific period of time.
Order/Trade Matching Changes for Stop Stock, PRP and ISO Exception Trades
These days, it's not a matter of if, but when, when it comes to cybersecurity incidents, which is why it's essential for all firms to ensure they're prepared for the inevitable. On this episode, we're catching up with two members of FINRA's Complex Investigations and Intelligence Team for an update on the cyber threat landscape and what firms should be thinking about and doing in response to the latest trends.
The Long Term Stock Exchange (“LTSE”) is providing a testing opportunity this weekend in preparation for their future launch. Firms participating in the August 15, 2020 test may send OATS data related to those orders to the OATS Certification Testing environment before the following Monday's OATS reporting deadline. OATS will then attempt to match to LTSE test data. Matching
