
doi: 10.2139/ssrn.2771299
In August 2012, the New York Stock Exchange launched the Retail Liquidity Program (RLP), a new trading facility that enables participating organizations to quote dark limit orders available only to retail traders. The facility increased the information content of the order flow by distinguishing retail trades from relatively more informed trades. Stocks with substantial RLP activity experienced mildly improved relative bid-ask spreads, effective spreads, price impacts and return autocorrelations in both the RLP and non-RLP segments. Some of our results contrast with theory on segmentation and suggest exchange-based retail segmentation can benefit market quality overall.
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