Hi,
I put one order for greggs this morning. it was executed. I tried to check LSE and realised that there is small premium compared to other trades. Anybody knows why? Amount is not significant but still would be good to have clarity why that would be case.
I am guessing here but your order was filled as āoff bookā and the liquidity and pricing here tends to be a little away from the broader market.
Whatās difference between these two? Off Book and Automatic trade? can someone comment?
Off book is typically an OTC (over the counter) trade between two counter parties and then reported to the exchange. Whereas normally the exchange brings the two sides of the trade together matching orders.
Thanks. Does this mean all retail market maker orders are reported as off-book?
Greggs is seeing quite a lot of auction activity today too (despite being on the SETMM segment - which kinda confused me, but still, Iām easily confused)
If you just happen to execute during the seconds the order book is not executing automatic orders because an auction uncrossing is taking place you see some (quite minor-ish) changes in price.
Iāve put a few orders through Freetrade and not really had an issue - the auction uncrossing is fine and perfectly legit. They seem to report out as executed on the LSE. Iāve shoved a few through other brokers and can see they get āsystematically internalisedāā¦ which is a horrible way of saying ākinda made up based on the best prices we had a few seconds ago and what we as market makers are prepared to suck up right this secondāā¦ (but also perfectly legit in most case)
I also saw the order book for Gregss come to a halt this morning for quite a few minutesā¦ which normally means a circuit breaker triggered (which it doesnāt appear to ) or an announcement (which there hasnāt been)ā¦ orā¦ I dunno.
Long story short : All is well. Your orders went via RSP which categorically makes them
ābest executionā as per my experience with clients claiming otherwise (admittedly over a decade ago!)