IIROC implements short sale changes

Goodbye tick test.

New trading rules that went live today amend IIROC’s rules governing short sales and failed trades repeal the longstanding determination for a short sale.

Read: New rules for short sales

They also:

• Impose pre-borrow requirements for short sales made in certain circumstances; and
• Require a sell order from a short position to continue to be marked “short sale” but introduce a “short-marking exempt” designation to be used with an order for the purchase or sale of a security by certain accounts that adopt a “directionally neutral” strategy in the trading of securities.

Read: Shorting bans don’t work

Additional amendments relating to dark liquidity pools also went live today.

Read: CSA, IIROC to regulate dark orders

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