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Nasdaqs Phil Mackintosh looks at whether Rule 605 is still the right way to define and protect retail trade execution.

February 1, 2021 (The following are my compiled notes for a recent presentation at ETF Trends. I’ve included the slides for reference in line, however you can also watch a replay here. Thanks!) [[Note: I have talked to a lot of people in the past two weeks, through phones and Zooms and IBs and texts, and who knows what. I’m sorry if I discredited something or misrepresented some of your thinking here or adopted something of yours as my own. Please don’t sue me, my note taking is just no...

Who Counts as a Retail Investor? By Phil Mackintosh, Chief Economist, Nasdaq With the growth in retail trading this year and plans to deepen the Securities Information Processor (SIP) data that retail uses, it’s time to look in more detail at who exactly is a retail trader, what they trade and how the market works for retail investors. How big are retail assets? The Federal Reserve has a report that looks at the balance sheets of households and the owners of corporate securities. Household ...