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America's upstart stock exchange slams NYSE and Nasdaq for being 'hypocritical' (CBOE, ICE)

Bats Global Markets, which is now a part of CBOE, has proposed Bats Market Close, a new offering that would allow NYSE- and Nasdaq-listed securities to be matched on Bats at the end of the trading day.

  • Bats Global Markets, the stock exchange recently acquired by the Chicago Board Options Exchange, is proposing a new model for trading at the end of the day.
  • The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq have both lobbied against the proposal, saying it will fragment the market.
  • Bats has now responded, accusing NYSE and Nasdaq of being "distinctly hypocritical."

There's a two-on-two rumble taking place amongst America's stock exchanges to decide how the trading day ends.

Bats Global Markets, which is now a part of CBOE, has proposed Bats Market Close, a new offering that would allow NYSE- and Nasdaq-listed securities to bematched on Bats at the end of the trading day. The proposal is a direct attack on the NYSE and Nasdaq model, and it comes at a time when more and more trading is conducted at the end of the day.

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Bats, which has been a thorn in the side of NYSE and Nasdaq for some time, then seeks to dismantle each of those arguments. For example, it says that Nasdaq and NYSE Arca currently conduct closing auctions in securities listed elsewhere, meaning they're already doing the thing they want to stop Bats from doing.

From the letter (emphasis ours):

"The NYSE and Nasdaq, in particular, argue that the Proposal would harm price discovery by potentially pulling market orders from their closing auctions. The Exchange questions the validity of the NYSE’s and Nasdaq’s concern since both Nasdaq and NYSE Arca, an affiliate of the NYSE, currently conduct closing auctions in securities listed elsewhere on a daily basis. The NYSE and Nasdaq would currently argue that these auctions act as a back-up to primary listing markets and must run every day to ensure that they work properly. This is a newly developed argument, and is akin to turning every light on in your house when you get home each night to ensure the electricity is working. Performing a back-up auction is not what Nasdaq’s intent was when it proposed expanding its closing auction process to NYSE listed securities in 2007. Nor did the NYSE express concern at the time that the Nasdaq’s proposal would impact the price discovery process performed by their closing auction."

And:

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"closing auctions."

According to its research:

Bats also takes aim at the argument, made by NYSE, Nasdaq and a number of listed companies, that the proposal would fragment trading at the close of the trading day. In its letter, Bats argued that trading is already fragmented at the end of the day. The letter said:

"Commenters, including the NYSE and Nasdaq, expressed concern that the Proposal would fragment trading at the close of regular trading hours. The Proposal would not introduce new fragmentation at the close. The NYSE and Nasdaq ignore the fact that fragmentation at the close exists today through their own competing closing auctions conducted daily on a broad base of non-primary listings. In addition, off-exchange venues siphon order flow at the close from the primary listing markets by offering executions at the official closing price. For example, on June 20, 2017, 430,000 shares of FedEx were matched at the official closing price by off-exchange venues, compared to 380,000 shares that were matched at NYSE, FedEx’s listing market."

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The reference to FedEx is telling. said in a letter to the SEC that t

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