
Information
pursuant to SEC Rule 606 (formerly
11Ac1-6)____________________________________________________________________________
Pursuant to SEC Rule
606, Penson Financial Services, Inc. (Penson), our clearing firm, is
required to make publicly available quarterly report with regard to
its routing of non-directed orders. For the purpose of this Rule,
Penson has entered into an agreement with Quantum5 Market
Surveillance * Division of S3 Matching Technologies to disclose all
required information pertaining to this rule.
Click
here to view the quarterly
routing report from our clearing firm, Penson Financial Services.
Under this rule, broker-dealers that route customer orders in equity
and option securities will be required to make publicly available
quarterly reports that, among other things, identify the venues to
which customer orders are routed for execution. In addition,
broker-dealers are required to disclose to customers, on request,
the venues to which their individual orders were routed. By making
visible the execution quality of the securities markets, the rules
are intended to spur more vigorous competition among market
participants to provide the best possible prices for investor
orders.
For more information on SEC Rule 606, please visit the SEC’s web
page at
www.sec.gov, or the NASD’s web
page at
www.nasdr.com.
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