Nasdaq Rolls Out New Trading Fees and Incentive Credits
Published Date: 3/25/2025
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Summary
Nasdaq is shaking up its fee schedule to make trading fairer and more rewarding! They’re adding new fee credits for certain order types, tweaking fees for the opening cross, and saying goodbye to some old excess order fee credits. These changes kick in right away and could save or cost traders a bit depending on how they trade.
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 3 mixed.
New $0.0030 Credit for Displayed Liquidity
Nasdaq will pay a new credit of $0.0030 per share to members that provide displayed liquidity in securities priced at or above $1 if they: (1) add at least 1% of Consolidated Volume with at least 0.30% being Tape B, and (2) add at least 0.25% of Consolidated Volume of non-displayed liquidity and M-ELOs. The credit applies to Tapes A, B, and C and is in addition to other displayed-liquidity credits.
RFTY Retail Routing Fee and Threshold Changes
Nasdaq raises the RFTY execution-volume threshold from 4,000,000 to 8,000,000 shares per month, lowers the charge for shares executed above the threshold from $0.0030 to $0.0025 per share, and adds a new requirement that members must add a daily average of at least 3,000,000 Designated Retail Order shares in the month to qualify for a $0.0000 per-share rate. Nasdaq also removes the previous requirement tied to 100% growth relative to March 2022.
Pre-Market Fees and Credits for Sub-$1 Securities
For Pre-Market Session orders in securities priced below $1.00, Nasdaq will: credit 0.05% of total dollar volume per executed share for orders that execute in the Nasdaq Market Center and provide liquidity; charge 0.3% of total dollar value per executed share for orders that route and execute at an away market; and charge 0.15% of total dollar volume per executed share for orders that execute in the Nasdaq Market Center. The Pre-Market Session is defined as 4:00 a.m. ET until market open.
Opening Cross Fees and New Sub-$1 Credit
Nasdaq clarifies that the Opening Cross monthly cap of $35,000 applies only to securities priced at or above $1.00 and only if a firm adds at least one million shares of liquidity on average per day during the month. Nasdaq also introduces a new fee credit of 0.25% of total dollar volume for Opening Cross orders in shares priced below $1.00.
Elimination of the Excess Order Fee Program
Nasdaq will eliminate its Excess Order Fee program (Equity 7, Section 118(m)), which charged members when an MPID's Order Entry Ratio exceeded 100, with applicable per-Excess-Weighted-Order rates of $0.005 (ratio 101–1,000) or $0.01 (ratio over 1,000). Nasdaq will also remove related language in Equity 7, Section 114(d)(1).
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