Options 7 Pricing Schedule
The Nasdaq Options Market Participants may be subject to the Charges for Membership, Services and
Equipment in the Equity 7 Series, General 8, Sections 1-2, as well as the fees in this Options 7.
(a) For purposes of assessing fees and paying rebates, the following references should serve as guidance.
The term "Broker-Dealer" or ("B") applies to any transaction which is not subject to any of the other transaction fees applicable within a particular category.
The term "Common Ownership" shall mean Participants under 75% common ownership or control. Common Ownership shall apply to all pricing in Options 7, Section 2 for which a volume threshold or volume percentage is required to obtain the pricing.
The term "Customer" or ("C") applies to any transaction that is identified by a Participant for clearing in the Customer range at The Options Clearing Corporation ("OCC") which is not for the account of broker or dealer or for the account of a "Professional" (as that term is defined in Options 1, Section 1(a)(47)).
The term "Firm" or ("F") applies to any transaction that is identified by a Participant for clearing in the Firm range at OCC.
The term "Joint Back Office" or "JBO" applies to any transaction that is identified by a Participant for clearing in the Firm range at OCC and is identified with an origin code as a JBO. A JBO will be priced the same as a Broker-Dealer as of September 1, 2014. A JBO participant is a Participant that maintains a JBO arrangement with a clearing broker-dealer ("JBO Broker") subject to the requirements of Regulation T Section 220.7 of the Federal Reserve System as further discussed in Options 6C, Section 1.
The term "NOM Market Maker" or ("M") is a Participant that has registered as a Market Maker on NOM pursuant to Options 2, Section 1, and must also remain in good standing pursuant to Options 2, Section 9. In order to receive NOM Market Maker pricing in all securities, the Participant must be registered as a NOM Market Maker in at least one security.
The term "Non-Customer" applies to transactions for the accounts of NOM Market Makers, Non-NOM Market Makers, Firms, Professionals, Broker-Dealers and JBOs.
The term "Non-NOM Market Maker" or ("O") is a registered market maker on another options exchange that is not a NOM Market Maker. A Non-NOM Market Maker must append the proper Non-NOM Market Maker designation to orders routed to NOM.
The term "Professional" or ("P") means any person or entity that (i) is not a broker or dealer in securities, and (ii) places more than 390 orders in listed options per day on average during a calendar month for its own beneficial account(s) pursuant to Options 1, Section 1(a)(47). All Professional orders shall be appropriately marked by Participants.
(b) For Purposes of Common Ownership Aggregation of Activity of Affiliated Members and Member Organizations
(1) For purposes of applying any options transaction fee or rebate where the fee
assessed, or rebate provided by NOM depends upon the volume of an Options Participant's activity, an Options
Participant may request that NOM aggregate its activity with the activity of its affiliates.
(A) An Options Participant requesting aggregation of affiliate activity shall be
required to certify to NOM the affiliate status of entities whose activity it seeks to aggregate prior to
receiving approval for aggregation, and shall be required to inform NOM immediately of any event that causes
an entity to cease to be an affiliate. NOM shall review available information regarding the entities, and
reserves the right to request additional information to verify the affiliate status of an entity. NOM shall
approve a request unless it determines that the certification is not accurate.
(B) If two or more Options Participants become affiliated on or prior to the
sixteenth day of a month, and submit the required request for aggregation on or prior to the twenty-second
day of the month, an approval of the request by NOM shall be deemed to be effective as of the first day of
that month. If two or more Options Participants become affiliated after the sixteenth day of a month, or
submit a request for aggregation after the twenty-second day of the month, an approval of the request by NOM
shall be deemed to be effective as of the first day of the next calendar month.
(2) For purposes of applying any options transaction fee or rebate where the fee
assessed, or rebate provided, by NOM depends upon the volume of an Options Participant's activity,
references to an entity (including references to a "Options Participant") shall be deemed to include the
entity and its affiliates that have been approved for aggregation.
(3) For purposes of options pricing, the term "affiliate" of an Options
Participant shall mean any Options Participant under 75% common ownership or control of that Options
Participant.
The term "Appointed MM" is a NOM Market Maker who has been appointed by an Order Flow
Provider ("OFP") for purposes of qualifying as an Affiliated Entity. An OFP is a Participant, other than a
NOM Market Maker, that submits orders, as agent or principal, to the Exchange.
The term "Appointed OFP" is an OFP who has been appointed by a NOM Market Maker for purposes
of qualifying as an Affiliated Entity.
The term "Affiliated Entity" is a relationship between an Appointed MM and an Appointed OFP
for purposes of aggregating eligible volume for pricing in Options 7, Sections 2(1) and 2(6) for which a
volume threshold or volume percentage is required to qualify for higher rebates or lower fees. NOM Market
Makers and OFPs are required to send an email to the Exchange to appoint their counterpart at least 3
business days prior to the last day of the month to qualify for the next month. The Exchange will
acknowledge receipt of the emails and specify the date the Affiliated Entity is eligible for applicable
pricing in Options 7, Sections 2(1) and 2(6). Each Affiliated Entity relationship will commence on the 1st
of a month and may not be terminated prior to the end of any month. An Affiliated Entity Relationship will
automatically renew each month until or unless either party terminates earlier in writing by sending an email
to the Exchange at least 3 business days prior to the last day of the month to terminate for the next month. Participants under Common Ownership may not
qualify as a counterparty comprising an Affiliated Entity. Each Participant may qualify for only one (1)
Affiliated Entity relationship at any given time.
(c) With respect to Options 7, Sections 2(1) and (2) the order that is received by the trading system first in
time shall be considered an order adding liquidity and an order that trades against that order shall be
considered an order removing liquidity.
(d) For purposes of determining equity tier calculations under this section, any day that the market is not open for the entire trading day will be excluded from such calculation.
(a) Removal of Days for Purposes of Options Pricing Tiers:
(i)
(A) Any day that the Exchange announces in advance that it will not be open for trading will be excluded from the options tier calculations set forth in its Pricing Schedule; and (B) any day with a scheduled early market close ("Scheduled Early Close") may be excluded from the options tier calculations only pursuant to paragraph (iii) below.
(ii) The Exchange may exclude the following days ("Unanticipated Events") from the options tier calculations only pursuant to paragraph (iii) below, specifically any day that: (A) the market is not open for the entire trading day, (B) the Exchange instructs Participants in writing to route their orders to other markets, (C) the Exchange is inaccessible to Participants during the 30-minute period before the opening of trade due to an Exchange system disruption, or (D) the Exchange's system experiences a disruption that lasts for more than 60 minutes during regular trading hours.
(iii) If a day is to be excluded as a result of paragraph (i)(B) or (ii) above, the Exchange will exclude the day from any Participant's monthly options tier calculations as follows:
(A) the Exchange may exclude from the ADV calculation any Scheduled Early Close or Unanticipated Event; and
(B) the Exchange may exclude from any other applicable options tier calculation provided for in its Pricing Schedule (together with (ii)(A), "Tier Calculations") any Scheduled Early Close or Unanticipated Event.
provided, in each case, that the Exchange will only remove the day for Participants that would have a lower Tier Calculation with the day included.
(e) Collection of
Exchange Fees and Other Claims-Nasdaq Options Market
Each NOM member, and all applicants for registration, shall be required to provide a clearing account number
for an account at the National Securities Clearing Corporation ("NSCC") for purposes of permitting the
Exchange to debit any undisputed or final fees, fines, charges and/or other monetary sanctions or other
monies due and owing to the Exchange or other charges related to General 2, Section 2. If a member disputes an
invoice, the Exchange will not include the disputed amount in the debit if the member has disputed the
amount in writing to the Exchange's designated staff by the 15th of the month, or the following business day
if the 15th is not a business day, and the amount in dispute is at least $10,000 or greater.
Adopted Jan. 6, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-006); amended Oct. 18, 2017 (SR-NASDAQ-2017-111); amended Nov. 19, 2018
(SR-NASDAQ-2018-098); amended Aug. 3, 2020 (SR-NASDAQ-2020-047); amended Aug. 13, 2020 (SR-NASDAQ-2020-052); amended Apr. 1, 2021 (SR-NASDAQ-2021-016); amended Apr. 9, 2021 (SR-NASDAQ-2021-019); amended Apr. 13, 2021 (SR-NASDAQ-2021-021); amended Nov. 30, 2021 (SR-NASDAQ-2021-095), operative Dec. 1, 2021; amended January 12, 2022 (SR-NASDAQ-2022-003), operative January 31, 2022.
Section 2 Nasdaq
Options Market - Fees and Rebates
The following charges shall apply to the use of the order execution and routing services of The Nasdaq
Options Market for all securities.
(1) Fees and Rebates for Execution of Contracts on The Nasdaq Options Market*
Rebates to Add Liquidity in Penny Symbols
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Tier 1 |
Tier 2 |
Tier 3 |
Tier 4 |
Tier 5 |
Tier 6 |
| Customer 1,9,10 |
($0.20) |
($0.25) |
($0.43) |
($0.44) |
($0.45) |
($0.48)7 |
| Professional 1,9,10 |
($0.20) |
($0.25) |
($0.43) |
($0.44) |
($0.45) |
($0.47) |
| Broker-Dealer |
($0.10) |
($0.10) |
($0.10) |
($0.10) |
($0.10) |
($0.10) |
| Firm |
($0.10) |
($0.10) |
($0.10) |
($0.10) |
($0.10) |
($0.10) |
| Non-NOM Market Maker |
($0.10) |
($0.10) |
($0.10) |
($0.10) |
($0.10) |
($0.10) |
| NOM Market Maker 3 |
($0.20) |
($0.25)4 |
($0.30)4 |
($0.32)4 |
($0.45) |
($0.47) |
Fees and Rebates to Add Liquidity in Non-Penny Symbols
| Customer 9,10,12 |
($0.80) |
| Professional 9,10,12 |
($0.80) |
| Broker-Dealer |
$0.45 |
| Firm |
$0.45 |
| Non-NOM Market Maker |
$0.45 |
| NOM Market Maker 5,6 |
$0.35/$0.00/($0.30)/($0.40) |
Fees to Remove Liquidity in Penny and Non-Penny Symbols
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Penny Symbols |
Non-Penny Symbols |
| Customer |
$0.49 |
$0.85 |
| Professional |
$0.49 |
$0.85 |
| Broker-Dealer |
$0.50 |
$1.25 |
| Firm |
$0.50 |
$1.25 |
| Non-NOM Market Maker |
$0.502 |
$1.25 |
| NOM Market Maker |
$0.502 |
$1.25 |
*Orders executed in the Opening Cross per Options 3, Section 8 are not subject to Options 7, Section 2(1) pricing, instead, these orders are subject to the pricing within Options 7, Section 2(2).
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The Customer and Professional Rebate to Add Liquidity in Penny Symbols will be paid per the highest tier achieved below.
To determine the applicable percentage of total industry customer equity and ETF option average daily volume, unless otherwise stated,
the Participant's Penny Symbol and Non-Penny Symbol Customer and/or Professional volume that adds liquidity will be included.
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Monthly Volume
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Tier 1
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Participant adds Customer, Professional, Firm, Non-NOM Market Maker and/or Broker-Dealer liquidity
in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols of up to 0.10% of total industry customer equity and ETF
option average daily volume (“ADV”) contracts per day in a month
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Tier 2
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Participant adds Customer, Professional, Firm, Non-NOM Market Maker and/or Broker-Dealer liquidity in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols above 0.10% of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month
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Tier 3
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Participant: (a) adds Customer, Professional, Firm, Non-NOM Market Maker and/or Broker-Dealer
liquidity in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols above 0.20% of total industry
customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month; or (b) adds Customer and/or Professional liquidity in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols above 0.05% of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month and qualifies for MARS
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Tier 4
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Participant adds Customer, Professional, Firm, Non-NOM Market Maker and/or Broker-Dealer
liquidity in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols above 0.30% of total industry customer
equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month
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Tier 5
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Participant adds Customer, Professional, Firm, Non-NOM Market Maker and/or Broker-Dealer liquidity
in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols above 0.40% of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month
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Tier 6##
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Participant adds Customer, Professional, Firm, Non-NOM Market Maker and/or Broker-Dealer liquidity
in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols above 0.70% or more of total industry customer equity and ETF
option ADV contracts per day in a month, or Participant : (1) adds Customer and/or Professional liquidity in Penny
Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols of 0.10% or more of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts
per day in a month, and (2) has added liquidity in all securities through one or more of its Nasdaq Market Center MPIDs that
represent 1.00% or more of Consolidated Volume in a month or qualifies for MARS (defined below)
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Participants that add 1.10% of Customer, Professional, Firm, Broker-Dealer or Non-NOM Market Maker
liquidity in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols of total industry customer equity and ETF
option ADV contracts per day in a month will be subject to the following pricing applicable to executions: a
$0.48 per contract Penny Symbols Fee for Removing Liquidity when the Participant is (i) both the buyer
and the seller or (ii) the Participant removes liquidity from another Participant under Common Ownership.
Participants that add 1.55% of Customer, Professional, Firm, Broker-Dealer or Non-NOM Market
Maker liquidity in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols of total industry customer equity and
ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month will be subject to the following pricing applicable to
executions less than 10,000 contracts: a $0.38 per contract Penny Symbols Fee for Removing Liquidity
when the Participant is (i) both the buyer and seller or (ii) the Participant removes liquidity from another
Participant under Common Ownership.
##Participants that add Customer, Professional, Firm, Non-NOM Market Maker and/or Broker-Dealer liquidity in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols above 0.80% or more of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month, or Participants that (1) add Customer and/or Professional liquidity in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols of 0.20% or more of total industry adds customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month, and (2) have added liquidity in all securities through one or more of its Nasdaq Market Center MPIDs that represent 1.00% or more of Consolidated Volume in a month or qualify for MARS (defined below) will receive an additional $0.01 per contract rebate for Professional volume which adds liquidity in Penny Symbols only.
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The NOM Market Maker Rebates to Add Liquidity in Penny Symbols will be paid per the highest tier achieved below.
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Monthly Volume
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Tier 1
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Participant adds NOM Market Maker liquidity in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols
of up to 0.10% of total industry customer equity and ETF option average daily volume (“ADV”) contracts per day in a month
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Tier 2
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Participant adds NOM Market Maker liquidity in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols
above 0.10% of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month
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Tier 3
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Participant: (a) adds NOM Market Maker liquidity in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols
above 0.20% of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in
a month; or (b)(1) adds NOM Market Maker liquidity in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols above 0.15% of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month, (2) transacts in all securities through one or more of its Nasdaq Market Center MPIDs that
represent (i) 0.50% or more of Consolidated Volume (“CV”) which adds liquidity in the same month
on The Nasdaq Stock Market or (ii) 50 million shares or more ADV which adds liquidity in the same
month on The Nasdaq Stock Market, and (3) executes 1.5 million shares or more ADV in the same month utilizing the M-ELO order type on The Nasdaq Stock Market
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Tier 4
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Participant adds NOM Market Maker liquidity in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols
of above 0.60% of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month
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Tier 5
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Participant: (a) adds NOM Market Maker liquidity in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols above 1.25% of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month; or (b) adds NOM Market Maker liquidity in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols
of above 0.40% of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month and transacts
in all securities through one or more of its Nasdaq Market Center MPIDs that represent 0.40% or more of
Consolidated Volume (“CV”) which adds liquidity in the same month on The Nasdaq Stock Market
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Tier 6
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Participant: (a)(1) adds NOM Market Maker liquidity in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols
above 0.95% of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month, (2)
executes Total Volume of 250,000 or more contracts per day in a month, of which 30,000 or more contracts
per day in a month must be removing liquidity, and (3) adds Firm, Broker-Dealer and Non-NOM Market Maker liquidity
in Non-Penny Symbols of 10,000 or more contracts per day in a month; or (b)(1) adds NOM Market Maker liquidity
in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols above 1.40% of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per
day in a month, and (2) executes Total Volume of 250,000 or more contracts per day in a month, of which 15,000 or more contracts
per day in a month must be removing liquidity
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*
“Total Volume” shall be defined as Customer, Professional, Firm, Broker-Dealer, Non-NOM Market Maker
and NOM Market Maker volume in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols which either adds or removes liquidity on NOM.
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Participants who achieve the NOM Market Maker Tier 2 Rebate to Add Liquidity and execute 1 million shares or more ADV in the same month utilizing the M-ELO order type on The Nasdaq Stock Market will receive a $0.33 per contract to add liquidity in SPY, QQQ, and IWM, provided the Participant also transacts in all securities through one or more of its Nasdaq Market Center MPIDs that represent (i) 0.45% or more of Consolidated Volume (“CV”) which adds liquidity in the same month on The Nasdaq Stock Market or (ii) 45 million shares or more ADV which adds liquidity in the same month on The Nasdaq Stock Market. Participants who achieve the NOM Market Maker Tier 3 or Tier 4 Rebate to Add Liquidity will receive $0.39 per contract to add liquidity in the following symbols: SPY, QQQ, and IWM.
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The NOM Market Maker Fee for Adding Liquidity in Non-Penny Symbols will apply unless
Participants meet the volume thresholds set forth in this note. Participants that add NOM Market Maker
liquidity in Non-Penny Symbols of 0.025% to 0.035% of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month will be assessed a
$0.00 per contract Non-Penny Options Fee for Adding Liquidity in that month. Participants that add NOM Market Maker liquidity in Non-Penny Symbols of above 0.035% to 0.075% of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month will receive a Non-Penny Rebate to Add Liquidity of $0.30 per contract for that month instead of paying the Non-Penny Fee for Adding Liquidity. Participants that add NOM
Market Maker liquidity in Non-Penny Symbols of above 0.075% of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month will
receive a Non-Penny Rebate to Add Liquidity of $0.40 per contract for that month instead of paying the Non-Penny Fee for Adding
Liquidity.
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Participants that qualify for either Tier 5 or 6 NOM Market Maker Rebate to Add Liquidity in Penny Symbols
will receive a $0.86 per contract NOM Market Maker Rebate to Add Liquidity in Non-Penny Symbols.
Participants that qualify for Tier 7 or higher in the MARS Payment Schedule in Section 2(4)
will receive an additional $0.02 per contract NOM Market Maker Rebate to Add Liquidity in Non-Penny Symbols,
in addition to receiving a $0.86 per contract NOM Market Maker Rebate to Add Liquidity in Non-Penny
Symbols. Participants that qualify for note "5" and note “6” incentives will receive the greater of the note "5"
or note "6" incentive, but not both.
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Participants that: (1) add Customer, Professional, Firm, Non-NOM Market Maker and/or Broker-Dealer liquidity
in Penny Symbols and/or Non- Penny Symbols of 1.15% or more of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV
contracts per day in a month will receive an additional $0.02 per contract Penny Symbol Customer Rebate to Add Liquidity for
each transaction which adds liquidity in Penny Symbol in that month; or (2) add Customer, Professional, Firm, Non-NOM
Market Maker and/or Broker-Dealer liquidity in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols of 1.30% or more of total industry
customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month will receive an additional $0.05 per contract Penny Symbol
Customer Rebate to Add Liquidity for each transaction which adds liquidity in Penny Symbols in that month; or (3) (a) add Customer,
Professional, Firm, Non-NOM Market Maker and/or Broker- Dealer liquidity in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols above 0.80%
of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month, (b) add Customer, Professional, Firm, Non-NOM
Market Maker and/or Broker-Dealer liquidity in Non-Penny Symbols above 0.12% of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts
per day in a month, and (c) execute greater than 0.04% of Consolidated Volume (“CV”)
via Market-on-Close/Limit-on- Close (“MOC/LOC”) volume within The Nasdaq Stock Market Closing Cross
within a month will receive an additional $0.05 per contract Penny Symbol Customer Rebate to Add Liquidity for each transaction
which adds liquidity in Penny Symbols in a month. Consolidated Volume shall mean the total consolidated volume reported to all
consolidated transaction reporting plans by all exchanges and trade reporting facilities during a month in equity securities, excluding
executed orders with a size of less than one round lot. For purposes of calculating Consolidated Volume and the extent of an equity member's
trading activity, expressed as a percentage of or ratio to Consolidated Volume, the date of the annual reconstitution
of the Russell Investments Indexes shall be excluded from both total Consolidated Volume and the member’s trading activity.
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Reserved.
9
NOM Participants that transact in all securities through one or more of its Nasdaq Market Center MPIDs that represent 3.00% or
more of Consolidated Volume in the same month on The Nasdaq Stock Market will receive a $0.50 per contract Rebate to Add Liquidity
in Penny Symbols as Customer, a $0.48 per contract rebate as Professional, a $1.10 per contract Rebate to Add Liquidity in Non-Penny
Symbols as Customer, and a $0.90 per contract Rebate to Add liquidity in Non-Penny Symbols as Professional. Participants that qualify
for this rebate would not be eligible for any other rebates in Tiers 1-6 or other rebate incentives on NOM for Customer and
Professional order flow in Options 7, Section 2(1).
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NOM Participants that (a) add Customer, Professional, Firm, Non-NOM Market Maker and/or Broker-Dealer liquidity
in Penny Symbols and/or Non-Penny Symbols above 1.50% of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts
per day in a month, (b) execute greater than 0.04% of Consolidated Volume (“CV”)
via Market-on-Close/Limit-on-Close (“MOC/LOC”) volume within The Nasdaq Stock Market Closing Cross within
a month, and (c) add greater than 1.5 million shares per day of non-displayed volume within The Nasdaq Stock Market within a
month will receive a $0.55 per contract Rebate to Add Liquidity in Penny Symbols as Customer, a $0.48 per contract Rebate to
Add Liquidity in Penny Symbols as Professional, and a $1.15 per contract Rebate to Add Liquidity in Non-Penny Symbols as
Customer, and a $0.90 per contract Rebate to Add Liquidity in Non-Penny Symbols as Professional. Participants that qualify
for this rebate would not be eligible for any other rebates in Tiers 1-6 or other rebate incentives on NOM for
Customer and Professional order flow in Options 7, Section 2(1).
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Reserved.
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A Participant that qualifies for Customer or Professional Penny Symbol Rebate to Add Liquidity Tiers 2, 3, 4, or 5 in
a month will receive an additional $0.10 per contract Non-Penny Symbol Rebate to Add Liquidity for each transaction
which adds liquidity in Non-Penny Symbols in that month. A Participant that qualifies for Customer or Professional Penny
Symbol Rebate to Add Liquidity Tier 6 in a month will receive an additional $0.20 per contract Non-Penny Symbol Rebate
to Add Liquidity as Customer and an additional $0.10 per contract Non-Penny Symbol Rebate to Add Liquidity as Professional
for such transactions which add liquidity in Non-Penny Symbols in that month.
(2) Opening Cross per Options 3, Section 8
All orders executed in the Opening Cross:
Customer orders will receive the Rebate to Add Liquidity during the Exchange's
Opening Cross, unless the contra-side is also a Customer. Broker-Dealers, Professionals, Firms, Non-NOM
Market Makers and NOM Market Makers will be assessed the Fee for Removing Liquidity during the Exchange's
Opening Cross.
(3) Fees for routing contracts to markets other than The Nasdaq Options Market
shall be assessed as follows:
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Non-Customer
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• $1.20 per contract to any options exchange.
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Customer
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• $0.23 per contract fee ("Fixed Fee") to any options exchange in addition to the actual transaction fee assessed. If the away market pays a rebate, the Routing Fee will be $0.13 per contract.
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(4) Market Access and Routing Subsidy ("MARS")
MARS System Eligibility To qualify for MARS, the
Participant's routing system ("System") would be required to: (1) enable the electronic routing of orders to
all of the U.S. options exchanges, including NOM; (2) provide current consolidated market data from the U.S.
options exchanges; and (3) be capable of interfacing with NOM's API to access current NOM match engine
functionality. Further, the Participant's System would also need to cause NOM to be the one of the top three
default destination exchanges for (a) individually executed marketable orders if NOM is at the national best
bid or offer ("NBBO"), regardless of size or time or (b) orders that establish a new NBBO on NOM's Order
Book, but allow any user to manually override NOM as a default destination on an order-by-order basis. Any
NOM Participant would be permitted to avail itself of this arrangement, provided that its order routing
functionality incorporates the features described above and satisfies NOM that it appears to be robust and
reliable. The Participant remains solely responsible for implementing and operating its System.
MARS Eligible Contracts MARS Payment would be made to
NOM Participants that have System Eligibility and have routed the requisite number of Eligible Contracts
daily in a month ("Average Daily Volume"), which were executed on NOM. For the purpose of qualifying for the
MARS Payment, Eligible Contracts may include Firm, Non-NOM Market Maker, Broker-Dealer, or Joint Back Office
or "JBO" equity option orders that add liquidity and are electronically delivered and executed. Eligible
Contracts do not include Mini Option orders.
MARS Payment
NOM Participants that have System Eligibility and have executed the requisite
number of Eligible Contracts in a month will be paid the following rebates:
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Tiers
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Average Daily Volume ("ADV")
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MARS Payment (Penny)
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MARS Payment (Non-Penny)
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1
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2,000
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$0.11 * ^
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$0.24 ^
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2
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5,000
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$0.11 * ^
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$0.29 ^
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3
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10,000
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$0.11 * ^
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$0.39 ^
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4
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20,000
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$0.15 * ^
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$0.50 ^
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5
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45,000
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$0.17 * ^
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$0.60 ^
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6
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75,000
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$0.20 ^
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$0.75 ^
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7
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100,000
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$0.20 ^
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$0.78 ^
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8
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125,000
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$0.20 ^
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$0.81 ^
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9
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150,000
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$0.21 ^
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$0.84 ^
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The specified MARS Payment will be paid on all executed Eligible Contracts that add
liquidity, which are routed to NOM through a participating NOM Participant's System and meet
the requisite Eligible Contracts ADV. No payment will be made with respect to orders that
are routed to NOM, but not executed
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A Participant will not be entitled to receive any other revenue from the Exchange for the use
of its System specifically with respect to orders routed to NOM.
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* NOM Participants that qualify for Customer and Professional Penny Symbols
Rebate to Add Liquidity Tier 6 will receive a $0.20 per contract rebate in Penny Symbols in lieu of
the Penny MARS Payment Tiers 1 - 5 on MARS Eligible Contracts the NOM Participant
qualifies for in a given month.
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^ NOM Participants that have total Affiliated Entity or Common Ownership average
daily add volume ("ADAV") of 3.00% or more of total industry customer equity and ETF option
ADV contracts per day in a month will receive an additional $0.01 per contract in Penny
Symbols and an additional $0.03 per contract in Non-Penny Symbols, in addition
to any MARS Payment tier on MARS Eligible Contracts the NOM Participant qualifies for in a
given month.
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Adopted Jan. 6, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-006); amended Jan. 31, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-022), operative Feb. 1,
2012; amended Feb. 13, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-027), operative Mar. 1, 2012; amended Feb. 29, 2012
(SR-NASDAQ-2012-033), operative Mar. 1, 2012; amended Mar. 28, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-037), operative Apr. 2,
2012; amended Mar. 28, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-046), operative Apr. 2, 2012; amended Apr. 2, 2012
(SR-NASDAQ-2012-048); amended Apr. 11. 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-050); amended May 30, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-068),
operative June 1, 2012; amended June 27, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-080), operative July 2, 2012; amended June 29,
2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-083), operative July 2, 2012; amended Aug. 31, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-102), operative
Sept. 4, 2012; amended Aug. 31, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-104), operative Sept. 4, 2012; amended Oct. 1, 2012
(SR-NASDAQ-2012-114); amended Oct. 31, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-125), operative Nov. 1, 2012; ; amended Nov. 1,
2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-127), operative Nov. 2, 2012; amended Nov. 30, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-136), operative
Dec. 3, 2012; amended Dec. 31, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-141), operative Jan. 2, 2013; amended Jan. 2, 2013
(SR-NASDAQ-2013-001); amended Jan. 18, 2013 (SR-NASDAQ-2013-010), operative Feb. 1, 2013; amended Jan. 22,
2013 (SR-NASDAQ-2013-013), operative Feb. 1, 2013; amended Feb. 1, 2013 (SR-NASDAQ-2013-025); amended Feb.
4, 2013 (SR-NASDAQ-2013-027); amended Feb. 12, 2013 (SR-NASDAQ-2013-029); amended Mar. 1, 2013
(SR-NASDAQ-2013-041); amended Mar. 15, 2013 (SR-NASDAQ-2013-049), operative Mar. 18, 2013; amended Mar. 18,
2013 (SR-NASDAQ-2013-051), operative Apr. 1, 2013; amended Apr. 1, 2013 (SR-NASDAQ-2013-062); amended Apr.
9, 2013 (SR-NASDAQ-2013-064), operative May 1, 2013; amended Apr. 30, 2013 (SR-NASDAQ-2013-074), operative
May 1, 2013; amended June 27, 2013 (SR-NASDAQ-2013-091), operative July 1, 2013; amended Aug. 5, 2013
(SR-NASDAQ-2013-104); amended Sep. 9, 2013 (SR-NASDAQ-2013-120); amended Sep. 9, 2013 (SR-NASDAQ-2013-117);
amended Oct. 28, 2013 (SR-NASDAQ-2013-136), operative Nov. 1, 2013; amended Nov. 13, 2013
(SR-NASDAQ-2013-141); amended Nov. 27, 2013 (SR-NASDAQ-2013-146), operative Dec. 2, 2013; amended Nov. 29,
2013 (SR-NASDAQ-2013-149), operative Dec. 2, 2013; amended Jan. 2, 2014 (SR-NASDAQ-2014-002); amended Jan.
29, 2014 (SR-NASDAQ-2014-013), operative Feb. 3, 2014; amended Feb. 3, 2014 (SR-NASDAQ-2014-016); amended
Mar. 3, 2014 (SR-NASDAQ-2014-021); amended Mar. 3, 2014 (SR-NASDAQ-2014-023); amended May 15, 2014
(SR-NASDAQ-2014-055), operative June 2, 2014; amended June 2, 2014 (SR-NASDAQ-2014-062); amended July 30,
2014 (SR-NASDAQ-2014-077), operative Aug. 1, 2014; amended Oct. 31, 2014 (SR-NASDAQ-2014-098), operative
Nov. 3, 2014; amended Nov. 10, 2014 (SR-NASDAQ-2014-105), operative Nov. 3, 2014; amended Nov. 20, 2014
(SR-NASDAQ-2014-114), operative Dec. 1, 2014; amended Nov. 18, 2014 (SR-NASDAQ-2014-113), operative Dec. 18,
2014; amended Feb. 27, 2015 (SR-NASDAQ-2015-019), operative Mar. 2, 2015; amended Apr. 10, 2015
(SR-NASDAQ-2015-037), operative May 1, 2015; amended Apr. 29, 2015 (SR-NASDAQ-2015-047), operative May 1,
2015; amended June 30, 2015 (SR-NASDAQ-2015-070), operative July 1, 2015; amended July 31, 2015
(SR-NASDAQ-2015-090), operative Aug. 3, 2015; amended Sep. 1, 2015 (SR-NASDAQ-2015-102); amended Sep. 1,
2015 (SR-NASDAQ-2015-109), operative Oct. 1, 2015; amended Sep. 29, 2015 (SR-NASDAQ-2015-113), operative
Oct. 1, 2015; amended Oct. 22, 2015 (SR-NASDAQ-2015-115), operative Oct. 22, 2015; amended Oct. 23, 2015
(SR-NASDAQ-2015-127), operative Nov. 2, 2015; amended Oct. 27, 2015 (SR-NASDAQ-2015-128), operative Nov. 2,
2015; amended Oct. 28, 2015 (SR-NASDAQ-2015-130), operative Nov. 2, 2015; amended Nov. 2, 2015
(SR-NASDAQ-2015-133); amended Dec. 1, 2015 (SR-NASDAQ-2015-148); amended Dec. 2, 2015 (SR-NASDAQ-2015-149);
amended Dec. 15, 2015 (SR-NASDAQ-2015-153), operative Jan. 4, 2016; amended Dec. 17, 2015
(SR-NASDAQ-2015-155), operative Jan. 4, 2016; amended Dec. 30, 2015 (SR-NASDAQ-2015-166), operative Jan. 4,
2016; amended Jan. 11, 2016 (SR-NASDAQ-2016-004); amended Jan. 28, 2016 (SR-NASDAQ-2016-012), operative Feb.
1, 2016; amended Feb. 1, 2016 (SR-NASDAQ-2016-015); amended Apr. 13, 2016 (SR-NASDAQ-2016-055), operative
Apr. 1, 2016; amended May 10, 2016 (SR-NASDAQ-2016-070), operative May 2, 2016; amended June 14, 2016
(SR-NASDAQ-2016-089), operative June 1, 2016; amended July 12, 2016 (SR-NASDAQ-2016-100), operative July 1,
2016; amended Aug. 9, 2016 (SR-NASDAQ-2016-113), operative Aug. 1, 2016; amended Oct. 31, 2016
(SR-NASDAQ-2016-149), operative Nov. 1, 2016; amended Nov. 1, 2016 (SR-NASDAQ-2016-152); amended Dec. 1,
2016 (SR-NASDAQ-2016-166); amended Jan. 3, 2017 (SR-NASDAQ-2017-001); amended June 30, 2017
(SR-NASDAQ-2017-067), operative July 3, 2017; amended Aug. 1, 2017 (SR-NASDAQ-2017-079); amended Aug. 1,
2017 (SR-NASDAQ-2017-080); amended Aug. 16, 2017 (SR-NASDAQ-2017-083), operative Sept. 1, 2017; amended Oct.
18, 2017 (SR-NASDAQ-2017-111); Oct. 31, 2017 (SR-NASDAQ-2017-116); amended Dec. 1, 2017
(SR-NASDAQ-2017-127); amended Mar. 1, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-018); amended Mar. 13, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-019);
amended July 31, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-063), operative Aug. 1, 2018; amended Nov. 19, 2018
(SR-NASDAQ-2018-098); amended Dec. 3, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-101); amended Dec. 21, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-108);
amended Jan. 31, 2019 (SR-NASDAQ-2019-003); amended Feb. 28, 2019 (SR-NASDAQ-2019-011), operative Mar. 1,
2019; amended Apr. 1, 2019 (SR-NASDAQ-2019-025); amended Apr. 10, 2019 (SR-NASDAQ-2019-029); amended May 2,
2019 (SR-NASDAQ-2019-037); amended Sept. 27, 2019 (SR-NASDAQ-2019-084), operative Oct. 1, 2019; amended Jan.
29, 2020 (SR-NASDAQ-2020-006); amended Aug. 3, 2020 (SR-NASDAQ-2020-047); amended Aug. 13, 2020 (SR-NASDAQ-2020-052); amended Dec. 1, 2020 (SR-NASDAQ-2020-084); amended Apr. 1, 2021 (SR-NASDAQ-2021-016); amended Apr. 9, 2021 (SR-NASDAQ-2021-019); amended Apr. 13, 2021 (SR-NASDAQ-2021-021); amended Sep. 1, 2021 (SR-NASDAQ-2021-069); amended Jan. 3, 2022 (SR-NASDAQ-2022-001); amended Jul. 1, 2022 (SR-NASDAQ-2022-040); amended Nov. 1, 2022 (SR-NASDAQ-2022-061); amended Nov. 10, 2022 (SR-NASDAQ-2022-064); amended Dec. 14, 2022 (SR-NASDAQ-2022-078); amended May 1, 2023 (SR-NASDAQ-2023-011); amended Sep. 1, 2023 (SR-NASDAQ-2023-033); amended Sep. 13, 2023 (SR-NASDAQ-2023-037); amended Sep. 29, 2023 (SR-NASDAQ-2023-040), operative Oct. 2, 2023; amended Nov. 1, 2023 (SR-NASDAQ-2023-044); amended Jul. 1, 2024 (SR-NASDAQ-2024-033); amended Jan. 31, 2025 (SR-NASDAQ-2025-010), operative Feb. 3, 2025; amended Feb. 10, 2025 (SR-NASDAQ-2025-014); amended Jun. 2, 2025 (SR-NASDAQ-2025-044); amended Jun. 16, 2025 (SR-NASDAQ-2025-045); amended Aug. 1, 2025 (SR-NASDAQ-2025-058); amended Dec. 1, 2025 (SR-NASDAQ-2025-096); amended Nov. 25, 2025 (SR-NASDAQ-2025-093), operative Feb. 2, 2026; amended Jan. 30, 2026 (SR-NASDAQ-2026-006), operative Feb. 2, 2026.
Section 3 Nasdaq
Options Market - Ports and Other Services
The below charges are assessed by Nasdaq for connectivity to services and The Nasdaq Options Market.
A port is a logical connection or session that enables a market participant to send inbound messages and/or
receive outbound messages from the Exchange using various communication protocols. Fees are prorated for the first month of service under this section. Upon cancellation, Participants are required to pay for service for the remainder of the month, regardless of whether it is the first month of service.
An account number shall mean a number assigned to a Participant. Participants may have more than one account
number.
(i) The following order and quote protocols are available on NOM:
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(1) FIX Port Fee
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$650 per port, per month, per account number
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(2) SQF Port Fee
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per port, per month A Market Maker may not subscribe to more than 250 SQF Ports per month.
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(3) SQF Purge Port Fee
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per port, per month
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SQF Port Fee and the SQF Purge Port Fee are aggregated for the below incremental tiers as follows:
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Number of Ports
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Monthly Fee Per Port
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First 5 ports (1-5)
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$1,620 per port
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Next 15 ports (6-20)
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$1,080 per port
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All ports over 20 ports (21 and above)
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$540 per port
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SQF Port and SQF Purge Fees will be discounted, on a monthly basis, by the percentage discount in the below table provided a market participant has transacted the requisite amount of Total National Volume in the prior month. The percentage of Total National Volume is calculated by taking the total Market Maker Penny Symbol and Market Maker Non-Penny Symbol volume (excluding index options) executed on the Exchange in the prior month and attributing a multiple of five times to that Non-Penny Symbol volume (numerator) and dividing that by Market Maker volume (“M” capacity at The Options Clearing Corporation (“OCC”)) in multiply listed options across all options exchanges (denominator or Total National Volume).
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Tier
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Percentage
of Total National Volume
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Percentage
SQF Port and SQF Purge Port Discount
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1
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less than
0.10%
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0%
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2
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greater than
or equal to 0.10% and less than 0.25%
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10%
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3
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greater than
or equal to 0.25% and less than 0.40%
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30%
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4
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greater than
or equal to 0.40%
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50%
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For example, a Market Maker that executed 3,000,000 in Penny Volume and 200,000 in Non-Penny Volume in a given month on the Exchange, where the Total National Volume was 1,000,000,000, would qualify for a discount of 50% on their SQF Port and SQF Purge Port fees ((200,000 x 5= 1,000,000) + 3,000,000 = 4,000,000 which is 0.40% of 1,000,000,000).
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(4) QUO Port Fee
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$750 per port, per month, per account number
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(ii) The following order and execution information is available to Participants.
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(1) CTI Port Fee
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$650 per port, per month
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(2) FIX DROP Port Fee
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$650 per port, per month
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(3) TradeInfo NOM Interface
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$95, per user, per month (Assessed only to Participant not subscribing to the Nasdaq
Workstation)
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(4) QUO DROP Port Fee
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$650 per port, per month
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(iii) The following data port fees apply in connection with data subscriptions
pursuant to Nasdaq Rules at Options 7, Section 4. The below port fees do not apply if the subscription is
delivered via multicast. These ports are available to non-NOM Participants and NOM Participants.
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(1) ITTO Port Fee
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$650 per port, per month
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(2) BONO Port Fee
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$650 per port, per month
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(iv) Other ports:
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Disaster Recovery Port Fee for ports in subsections (i) - (iii)
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$0 per port, per month
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Nasdaq Testing Facility Port Fee1
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$0 per port, per month
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1The Nasdaq Testing Facility Port Fee is applicable to all ports within this Section 3.
Adopted Jan. 6, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-006); amended Apr. 18, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-052), operative May 1, 2012;
amended July 24, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-086), operative Sept. 3, 2012; amended Dec. 12, 2012
(SR-NASDAQ-2012-139), operative Jan. 2, 2013; amended Feb. 21, 2013 (SR-NASDAQ-2013-034); amended Sep. 19,
2013 (SR-NASDAQ-2013-124), operative Oct. 1, 2013; amended Dec. 12, 2014 (SR-NASDAQ-2014-122), operative
Jan. 2, 2015; amended Mar. 25, 2015 (SR-NASDAQ-2015-027), operative Apr. 1, 2015; amended Aug. 13, 2015
(SR-NASDAQ-2015-101), operative Aug. 4, 2015; amended May 4, 2016 (SR-NASDAQ-2016-033); amended Oct. 3, 2016
(SR-NASDAQ-2016-133); amended Nov. 30, 2016 (SR-NASDAQ-2016-164), operative Dec. 1, 2016; amended Nov. 28,
2016 (SR-NASDAQ-2016-163); amended Dec. 9, 2016 (SR-NASDAQ-2016-170); amended Dec. 16, 2016
(SR-NASDAQ-2016-178); amended Feb. 21, 2017 (SR-NASDAQ-2017-022); amended Oct. 18, 2017
(SR-NASDAQ-2017-111); amended Apr. 27, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-036); amended May 30, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-040);
amended Nov. 7, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-087); amended Nov. 9, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-091); amended Nov. 19, 2018
(SR-NASDAQ-2018-098); amended Nov. 26, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-097); amended July 15, 2019
(SR-NASDAQ-2019-056); amended Aug. 22, 2019 (SR-NASDAQ-2019-067), operative Sept. 3, 2019; amended Dec. 1, 2020 (SR-NASDAQ-2020-084); amended Aug. 12, 2022 (SR-NASDAQ-2022-049), operative Sep. 1, 2022; amended Sep. 1, 2022 (SR-NASDAQ-2022-050); amended Nov. 28, 2023 (SR-NASDAQ-2023-050), operative Dec. 1, 2023; amended Dec. 5, 2023 (SR-NASDAQ-2023-054); amended Jan. 16, 2024 (SR-NASDAQ-2024-003); amended Mar. 7, 2024 (SR-NASDAQ-2024-012); amended May 1, 2024 (SR-NASDAQ-2024-021); amended Jun. 12, 2024 (SR-NASDAQ-2024-025); amended Jul. 1, 2024 (SR-NASDAQ-2024-036); amended Dec. 20, 2024
(SR-NASDAQ-2024-087), operative Jan. 1, 2025; amended Jul. 22, 2025 (SR-NASDAQ-2025-055), operative Aug. 1, 2025; amended Dec. 16, 2025 (SR-NASDAQ-2025-107).
(a) The charges to be paid by recipients of BONO SM and ITTO options
data feeds as well as NOTO and Hardware-Based delivery of NOM Depth data shall be:
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Monthly Internal Distributor Fee
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Monthly External Distributor Fee
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BONO SM
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$1,566 (op. 1/1/25); $1,618 (op. 1/1/26); $1,648 (op. 1/1/27)/firm
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$$2,089 (op. 1/1/25); $2,158 (op. 1/1/26); $2,197 (op. 1/1/27)/firm
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ITTO
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$1,566 (op. 1/1/25); $1,618 (op. 1/1/26); $1,648 (op. 1/1/27)/firm
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$2,089 (op. 1/1/25); $2,158 (op. 1/1/26); $2,197 (op. 1/1/27)/firm
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Non-Display Enterprise License Fee
A $10,530 (op. 1/1/25); $10,942 (op. 1/1/26); $11,177 (op. 1/1/27) per month enterprise license fee permits distribution of BONO
SM and ITTO as provided in Section 4(c). This fee is in addition to the Monthly Internal and
External Distributor Fees set forth above.
One distributor fee allows access to either the BONO SM or the ITTO data
feed.
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Monthly Internal Per User Fee
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Monthly External Per User Fee
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BONO SM and ITTO
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$42.10 (op. 1/1/25); $43.75 (op. 1/1/26); $44.70 (op. 1/1/27)/professional user
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$42.10 (op. 1/1/25); $43.75 (op. 1/1/26); $44.70 (op. 1/1/27)/professional user $1/non-professional user
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Monthly End of Day Product Subscriber
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Monthly Intra-Day Product Subscriber
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Nasdaq Options Trade Outline ("NOTO")
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$575
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$2,000
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NOTO Historical Data
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Account Type
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Fee
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Historical Data for Current End of Day Product Distributors:
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$3,000 for the most recent 36 months
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Historical Data for Current Intra-Day Product Distributors:
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$6,000 for the most recent 36 months
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The most recent 36 months is measured based on the date of purchase of the 36 months of data by a Current Distributor.
A “Current Distributor” is any firm that purchases either the End of Day Product for the current month, or the Intra-Day Product for the current month, in the same month that the 36 months of historical End of Day or Intra-Day data is ordered. Ad-hoc requests for historical data shall be $575 per month for End of Day data and $2,000 per month for Intra-Day data. Historical information is available starting in November 2011.
External Distribution
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Unlimited External Distribution of Derived Data from NOTO:
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$4,000 per month
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Fees for external distribution of Derived Data from NOTO are in addition to fees for the End of Day product or the Intra-Day product, or both, as applicable.
“Derived Data” is any information generated in whole or in part from Exchange Information such that the information generated cannot be reverse engineered to recreate Exchange Information, or be used to create other data that is recognizable as a reasonable substitute for such Exchange Information.
“Exchange Information” is any data or information that has been collected, validated, processed and/or recorded by the Exchange and made available for transmission relating to: (i) eligible securities or other financial instruments, markets, products, vehicles, indicators or devices; (ii) activities of the Exchange; or (iii) other information or data from the Exchange. Information includes, but is not limited to, any element of information used or processed in such a way that Exchange Information or a substitute for such Information can be identified, recalculated or re-engineered from the processed information.
Hardware-Based Delivery of NOM Depth data - the charges to be paid by Distributors
for processing NOM Depth data sourced from a Nasdaq hardware-based market data format shall be:
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Hardware-Based Delivery of NOM Depth data
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Monthly Fee
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Internal Only Distributor
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$10,530 (op. 1/1/25); $10,942 (op. 1/1/26); $11,177 (op. 1/1/27) Per Distributor
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External Only Distributor
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$1,000 Per Distributor
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Internal and External Distributor
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$11,530 (op. 1/1/25); $11,942 (op. 1/1/26); $12,177 (op. 1/1/27) Per Distributor
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Managed Data Solution Distributor
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$1,000 = 1 Subscriber $1,250 = 2 Subscribers $1,500 = 3 Subscribers $250 for each
additional Subscriber
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(b) A "distributor" of Nasdaq options market data is any entity that receives a
feed or data file of Nasdaq data directly from Nasdaq or indirectly through another entity and then
distributes the data either internally (within that entity) or externally (outside that entity). All
distributors shall execute a Nasdaq distributor agreement. Nasdaq itself is a vendor of its data feed(s) and
has executed a Nasdaq distributor agreement and pays the distributor charge.
(c) An "enterprise license" entitles a distributor to provide BONO SM or
ITTO market data pursuant to this section to an unlimited number of non-display devices within the firm
without any per user charge.
(d) Best of Nasdaq Options ("BONO SM") is a data feed that provides The
Nasdaq Options Market ("NOM") Best Bid and Offer and last sale information for trades executed on NOM.
(e) Nasdaq ITCH to Trade Options ("ITTO") is a data feed that provides quotation
information for individual orders on the NOM book, last sale information for trades executed on NOM, and
Order Imbalance Information as set forth in NOM Rules Options 3, Section 23(a)(1).
(1) "Hardware-Based Delivery" means that a distributor is processing data sourced
from a Nasdaq hardware coded market data format such as NOM ITTO FPGA.
(2) Distributors of NOM Depth data also are subject to the market data fees as set
forth in this section.
(f) The term "non-professional" shall have the same meaning as in Nasdaq Equity 7,
Section 111(b)(2).
(g) 30-Day Free Trial Offer. Nasdaq shall offer all new individual (non-firm) users
(subscribers) and potential new individual users a 30-day waiver of the user fees for Nasdaq options market
data pursuant to this section. This fee waiver period shall be applied on a rolling basis, determined by the
date on which a new individual user or potential individual user is first entitled by a distributor to
receive access to Nasdaq options market data. A distributor may only provide this waiver to a specific
individual user once.
Adopted Jan. 6, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-006); amended Nov. 28, 2014 (SR-NASDAQ-2014-119), operative Jan. 1,
2015; amended Apr. 7, 2015 (SR-NASDAQ-2015-035); amended Dec. 2, 2016 (SR-NASDAQ-2016-167), operative Jan.
1, 2017; amended Oct. 18, 2017 (SR-NASDAQ-2017-111); amended Nov. 19, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-098); amended
Dec. 6, 2019 (SR-NASDAQ-2019-098); amended Jul. 1, 2024 (SR-NASDAQ-2024-034); amended Jul. 15, 2024 (SR-NASDAQ-2024-040); amended Jul. 29, 2024 (SR-NASDAQ-2024-043); amended Sep. 6, 2024 (SR-NASDAQ-2024-055); amended Dec. 24, 2024 (SR-NASDAQ-2024-086), operative Jan. 1, 2025.
Effective January 2, 2026, the ORF will be $0.0006 per contract side.
The Options Regulatory Fee (“ORF”) is assessed by NOM to each NOM Participant for options transactions cleared by OCC in the Customer range where: (1) the execution occurs on NOM or (2) the execution occurs on another exchange and is cleared by a NOM Participant. The ORF is collected by OCC on behalf of NOM from (1) NOM clearing members for all Customer transactions they clear or (2) non-members for all Customer transactions they clear that were executed on NOM. NOM uses reports from OCC when assessing and collecting ORF. The Exchange will notify Participants via an Options Trader Alert of any change in the amount of the fee at least 30 calendar days prior to the effective date of the change.
NOM Participants who do not transact an equities business on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC in a calendar year will receive a refund of the fees specified in Equity 7, Section 30(b) upon written notification to the Exchange along with documentation evidencing that no equities business was conducted on The Nasdaq Stock Market for that calendar year. The Exchange will accept refund requests up until sixty (60) days after the end of the calendar year.
Effective July 1, 2026, the ORF is $0.0157 per contract side
The Options Regulatory Fee (“ORF”) is assessed by NOM for options transactions cleared by The Options Clearing Corporation (“OCC”) in the customer range for executions that occur on NOM. Specifically, the ORF is collected by OCC on behalf of NOM from NOM Participants and non-members for all customer transactions executed on NOM. The Exchange will notify Participants via an Options Trader Alert of any change in the amount of the fee at least 30 calendar days prior to the effective date of the change. Adopted Jan. 6, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-006); amended Feb. 11, 2014 (SR-NASDAQ-2014-018), operative Mar. 3,
2014; amended Jan. 8, 2016 (SR-NASDAQ-2016-003), operative Feb. 1, 2016; amended July 6, 2016
(SR-NASDAQ-2016-096), operative Aug. 1, 2016; amended July 26, 2017 (SR-NASDAQ-2017-068), operative Aug. 1,
2017; amended Sept. 25, 2017 (SR-NASDAQ-2017-099); amended Oct. 18, 2017 (SR-NASDAQ-2017-111); amended July
27, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-062), operative Aug. 1, 2018; amended Nov. 19, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-098); amended
Feb. 1, 2019 (SR-NASDAQ-2019-006); amended Aug. 3, 2020 (SR-NASDAQ-2020-047); amended Aug. 13, 2020 (SR-NASDAQ-2020-052); amended August 5, 2021 (SR-NASDAQ-2021-057), operative October 1, 2021; amended Jan. 20, 2022 (SR-NASDAQ-2022-007), operative Feb. 1, 2022; amended Oct. 15, 2024 (SR-NASDAQ-2024-058), operative Nov. 1, 2024 through November 26, 2024; amended Nov. 27, 2024 (SR-NASDAQ-2024-078), operative Nov. 27, 2024 and Jan. 1, 2025; amended Jan. 28, 2025 (SR-NASDAQ-2025-009); amended Apr. 30, 2025 (SR-NASDAQ-2025-035), operative May 1, 2025; amended Jul. 17, 2025 (SR-NASDAQ-2025-054), operative Jan. 2, 2026; amended Jul. 1, 2025 (SR-NASDAQ-2025-050), operative Aug. 1, 2025; amended Sep. 5, 2025 (SR-NASDAQ-2025-070), operative Oct. 1, 2025; amended Dec. 19, 2025 (SR-NASDAQ-2025-108), operative Jan. 2, 2026.
Section 6 Nasdaq Options
Maintenance Tool
The Nasdaq Options Maintenance Tool will be available to each user at no cost until October 31, 2008, and for
a subscription fee of $200 per month, per user thereafter.
Adopted Jan. 6, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-006); amended Oct. 18, 2017 (SR-NASDAQ-2017-111); amended Nov. 19, 2018
(SR-NASDAQ-2018-098).
(a) All fee disputes concerning fees which are billed by the Exchange must be
submitted to the Exchange in writing and must be accompanied by supporting documentation.
(b) All fee disputes must be submitted no later than sixty (60) days after receipt
of a billing invoice.
(c) This Section applies to the following Nasdaq Options Market fees:
(1) Section 2 "Nasdaq Options Market - Fees";
(2) Section 3 "Nasdaq Options Market - Ports and other Services", with the
exception of the TradeInfo Fee; and
(3) Section 5 "Nasdaq Options Regulatory Fee".
Adopted Jan. 6, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-006); amended Nov. 28, 2016 (SR-NASDAQ-2016-163); amended Oct. 18, 2017
(SR-NASDAQ-2017-111); amended Nov. 19, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-098).
A Sales Fee is assessed by Nasdaq to each member for sales of securities through Nasdaq transaction execution
systems in the following circumstances:
(a) When a sale in option securities occurs with respect to which Nasdaq is
obligated to pay a fee to the SEC under Section 31 of the Act;
(b) When a sell order in option securities is routed for execution at a market
other than the Nasdaq Options Market, resulting in a covered sale on that market and an obligation of the
routing facility of Nasdaq to pay the related sales fee of that market;
The Sales Fee is collected indirectly from members through their clearing firms by
a designated clearing agency, as defined by the Act, on behalf of Nasdaq. The amount of the Sales Fee is
equal to (i) the Section 31 fee rate multiplied by (ii) the member's aggregate dollar amount of covered
sales resulting from transactions through Nasdaq transaction execution systems during any computational
period.
Adopted Jan. 6, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-006); amended Nov. 19, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-098).
NOM Participants will be assessed an Account Number Fee of $50 per account, per month. An account number
shall mean a number assigned to a Participant. Participants may have more than one account number.
Adopted Apr. 18, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-052), operative May 1, 2012; amended Nov. 7, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-087);
amended Nov. 9, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-091); amended Nov. 19, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-098).
NOM Participants will be subject to a Participant Fee of $1,000 per month.
Adopted Dec. 12, 2012 (SR-NASDAQ-2012-139), operative Jan. 2, 2013; amended Dec. 17, 2015
(SR-NASDAQ-2015-154), operative Jan. 4, 2016; amended Nov. 19, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-098).
(a) The charges to be paid by Distributors and Subscribers of Managed Data
Solutions products for Non-Display Usage containing BONO or ITTO shall be:
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Fee schedule for Managed Data Solutions for Non-Display Usage —
ITTO
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Managed Data Solution Administration Fee (for the right to offer Managed Data
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$500/mo Per Distributor
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$125/mo Per Subscriber
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Fee schedule for Managed Data Solutions for Non-Display Usage —
BONO
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(b) "Distributor" shall mean the same as in NOM Options 7, Section 4(b).
(c) "Subscriber" shall mean a device or computer terminal or an automated service
which is entitled to receive Information.
Adopted Mar. 21, 2014 (SR-NASDAQ-2014-029), operative Apr. 1, 2014; amended Nov. 19, 2018
(SR-NASDAQ-2018-098).
Section 12 Access and
Redistribution Fee
(a) Definitions: For purposes of this Section 12:
(1) The term "Equipment Configuration" shall mean any line, circuit, router
package, or other technical configuration used to provide a connection to the Exchange market data feeds.
(2) The term "Extranet Provider" shall mean any entity that has signed the Nasdaq
Extranet Connection Agreement and that establishes a telecommunications connection in the Exchange's
co-location facility.
(3) The term "Distributor" shall have the meaning set forth in Equity 7, Section
119(c).
(b) Extranet Providers that establish a connection with the Exchange to offer
direct access connectivity to market data feeds shall be assessed a monthly access and redistribution fee of
$1,000 per Equipment Configuration. If an Extranet Provider uses multiple Equipment Configurations to
provide Exchange market data feeds to recipients, the access and redistribution fee shall apply to each such
Equipment Configuration. Extranet Providers that use the same Equipment Configuration for the receipt of
equities and options Exchange market data feeds will be assessed a single fee for that Equipment
Configuration.
(c) Distributors (other than Extranet Providers) that utilize a Direct Circuit
Connection to the Exchange pursuant to General 8, Section 2(a) to receive Exchange market data feeds shall
be assessed a monthly access and redistribution fee of $1,000 per Direct Circuit Connection. If a
Distributor (other than an Extranet Provider) uses multiple Direct Circuit Connections to receive Exchange
market data feeds, the monthly fee shall apply to each. Distributors that use the same Direct Circuit
Connection for the receipt of equities and options Exchange market data feeds will be assessed a single fee
for that Direct Circuit Connection.
(d) The access and redistribution fees set forth above will not be charged for
connectivity to market data feeds containing only consolidated data. For purposes of this section,
consolidated data includes data disseminated by the Securities Information Processor for the Options Price
Regulatory Authority.
Adopted Jan. 2, 2015 (SR-NASDAQ-2015-003). Amended Sep. 29, 2017 (SR-NASDAQ-2017-104); amended Oct. 2, 2017
(SR-NASDAQ-2017-106); amended Oct. 12, 2017 (SR-NASDAQ-2017-109); amended Oct. 25, 2017
(SR-NASDAQ-2017-114); amended June 5, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-045); amended Nov. 19, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-098).
The Exchange operates a test environment in Carteret, New Jersey. References to the "Testing Facility" refers
to this test environment.
(1) Subscribers to the Testing Facility shall pay a fee of $1,000 per hand-off, per
month for connection to the Testing Facility. The hand-off fee includes either a 1Gb or 10Gb switch port and
a cross connect to the Testing Facility. Subscribers shall also pay a one-time installation fee of $1,000
per hand-off.
(2) Subscribers may access the Testing Facility at no cost through a VPN for
site-to-site limited order routing capability only.
The connectivity provided under this section also provides connectivity to the
other test environments of Nasdaq PHLX LLC and Nasdaq BX, Inc. Additionally, the connectivity may be
utilized for either equities or options testing.
Adopted Oct. 16, 2015 (SR-NASDAQ-2015-117), operative Oct. 26, 2015; amended Oct. 18, 2017
(SR-NASDAQ-2017-111); amended Nov. 19, 2018 (SR-NASDAQ-2018-098).
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