Daily Displayed Highlights

5-days through 03/10/23

6.8 million

Orders priced better than the NBBO on arrival

7403

Unique displayed securities

29.9%

Tighter spreads than the NBBO when ASPEN has the best quote

1.3 bps

Lower adverse selection than maker/taker exchange avg at 20ms

Weekly Highlights

  • We're pleased to share an exciting press release about Pico Analyzing ASPEN Fee/Fee Price Improvement performance. Pico has analyzed our displayed liquidity and found that IntelligentCross improves SP500 NBBO by 2.5bps and Russell 3000 by 10bps for a meaningful portion of the day. Check out the full results here: Pico Analyzes IntelligentCross ASPEN Price Improvement.

  • Among the key findings of the report are the following: For ASPEN Fee/Fee orders in S&P 500 stocks, analysis shows that displayed bids and offers were available on average over 96% of the time. Displayed quotations were available strictly inside the NBB/NBO more than 12% of the time, with an average improvement of over 2.5 basis points. For orders in Russell 3000 stocks and top 100 ETFs, displayed bids and offers were available over 95% of the time. And displayed bids and offers strictly inside the NBB/NBO were available over 9% of the time, with an average improvement of over 10 basis points.

  • If you're not already using our platform to optimize your trading performance, we encourage you to get in touch. Our displayed quotes are available through our market data feed, IQX, which can be accessed directly or through Exegy, MayStreet, Redline, and ACTIV.

Displayed Quote Stats

5-days through 03/10/23

Unique Names Per Day

Displayed Order Better Than NBBO %

Avg Spread Improvement %

Total

7403

27.3%

29.9%

ETF

1268

28.5%

29.7%

LARGE CAP

790

26.0%

29.4%

MID CAP

1168

26.4%

29.5%

OTHER

492

88.7%

42.2%

SMALL CAP

3686

22.8%

30.2%

Top Symbols

shares matched on the week

ADR

NIO2,975,772
BBD2,838,984
VALE2,228,542

ETF

XLF4,973,603
SPY3,763,719
HYG2,434,713

Large Cap

BAC7,095,951
RIVN4,922,904
SNAP4,076,843

Smid Cap

MULN5,746,213
TRKA3,565,520
LUMN3,266,606

Trading Information

5-days through 03/10/23

5-days through 03/10/23

Quote Stability @ 20ms

Quote Stability @ 500ms

Average Trade Size

Average Order Size

Active Traded Names

Total

92.2

81.5

100

220

6850

Smid Cap

93.4

87

90

190

4390

ETF

93.9

78.6

170

380

1100

Large Cap

89.7

73.6

90

130

691

ADR

95.8

88.9

140

250

334

Percent Names Traded by Share Group

SMID_CAP 43.6%LARGE_CAP 39.9%ADR 6.3%OTHER 5.2%ETF 5.0%

SMID_CAP

LARGE_CAP

ADR

OTHER

ETF