RE: Transactions showing30 Aug 2019 19:03
Don’t know if this helps....
1. Transparency - Large in scale waiver
Under MiFID, orders that are large in scale can benefit from a waiver from pre-trade transparency. The waiver is designed to protect large orders from adverse market impact and to avoid abrupt price movements that can cause market distortion.
MiFIR gives ESMA the mandate to draft RTS that will specify the size of orders that are large in scale compared with normal market size for each class of shares, depositary receipts, exchange traded funds, certificates and other similar financial instruments.
In its previous consultation ESMA proposed an approach for all equity and equity-like financial instruments to use the average daily turnover (ADT) as a proxy for liquidity and market impact and allowing, for each financial instrument, the calibration of orders which may be considered large in scale compared to normal market size.
The use of the ADT has been criticised by some for being too simplistic of a measure whilst others have supported its use on the basis that it is easy to calculate and is well understood by market participants. Whilst accepting that the ADT may not provide the best metric on which to establish the large in scale threshold in all circumstances, ESMA views it as a reliable metric positively correlated with liquidity which, from an operational perspective, can be collected and processed in a relatively simple way. Therefore ESMA has decided to continue to use the ADT.
It is also worth noting that in relation to the thresholds for each class of ADT ESMA has added a new ADT category for shares with an ADT of less than EUR 50,000 with a corresponding threshold of EUR 15,000. For exchange-traded funds ESMA has kept with its proposal for a single large in scale threshold of EUR 1,000,000. This will apply to all exchange-traded funds regardless of their liquidity or the liquidity of their underlying.
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