Order Ticket Content and Information Flow
Chapters in this video
- 0:00 Why the order ticket is the foundational trade record
- 0:57 Core fields versus the full books-and-records requirement
- 2:22 Strict timing rule: at or before transmission
- 3:55 Principal review and the three-year retention trap
- 5:30 Cancel and rebill for firm-caused ticker errors
- 6:19 As-of NAV pricing: firm error versus customer error
- 7:45 Rapid-fire exam recap
What this video covers
- Why an order ticket carrying only symbol, account number, and price is incomplete, and which timestamp, capacity, and identity fields the broker-dealer books-and-records rule additionally requires
- When the ticket must be prepared: at or before order transmission, never after, and why regulators demand the paper trail before money moves
- How the registered principal reviews transactions for consistency with the firm's Written Supervisory Procedures (WSPs) after order entry
- The three-year retention period for order tickets under the broker-dealer recordkeeping rule, with the first two years kept easily accessible, and why this differs from the six-year new-account-form rule
- When cancel and rebill is used for ticket errors versus simple amendments, and why supervisory approval is required for material changes
- How as-of processing works for mutual fund errors: firm errors book at the originally intended net asset value (NAV), customer errors book at the next NAV after the corrected ticket is received
- How to distinguish solicited from unsolicited orders on the ticket, and when the discretionary indicator must appear
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