SEC-Required Report on Routing of Customers Orders (Rule 606)
For Quarter Ending December 31, 2011

 

Alpine Securities has prepared this report pursuant to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule requiring all brokerage firms to make publicly available quarterly reports on their order routing practices.  The report provides information on the routing of "non-directed orders" - any order that the customer has not specifically instructed to be routed to a particular venue for execution. For these non-directed orders, Alpine Securities, through the routing algorithm in Go-Trader's software, has selected the execution venue on behalf of its customers.

The report is divided into four sections: one for securities listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market, one for securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange, one for securities listed on the American Stock Exchange, and one for exchange-listed options.  For each section, this report identifies the venues most often selected by Alpine Securities, sets forth the various types of orders routed to the venues, and discusses the material aspects of Alpine Securities's relationship with the venues.

Securities Listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market

Summary Statistics:

Non-directed orders as percentage of total customer orders 100.00% 
Market orders as percentage of total non-directed orders 75.28% 
Limit orders as percentage of total non-directed orders 23.60% 
Other orders as percentage of total non-directed orders 1.12% 

Venues Receiving Significant Percentage of Total Non-Directed Orders:

Knight Securities  6.74% 
BATS Exchange  29.21% 
UBS Securities LLC  59.55% 
Seton Securities Group Inc  1.12% 
BMA Securities  2.25% 
Cantor Fitzgerald  1.12% 

Types of Orders Routed to Venue

  Market orders as
a % of total
market orders
Limit orders as a
% of total limit
orders
Other orders as 
% of total other
orders
Knight Securities  33.33%  66.67%  0.00% 
 
BATS Exchange  76.92%  23.08%  0.00% 
BATS Fee Schedule 
UBS Securities LLC  84.91%  13.21%  1.89% 
 
Seton Securities Group Inc  0.00%  100.00%  0.00% 
 
BMA Securities  0.00%  100.00%  0.00% 
 
Cantor Fitzgerald  0.00%  100.00%  0.00% 
 

Securities Listed on the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange)

Summary Statistics:

Non-directed orders as percentage of total customer orders 100.00% 
Market orders as percentage of total non-directed orders 85.80% 
Limit orders as percentage of total non-directed orders 13.58% 
Other orders as percentage of total non-directed orders 0.62% 

Venues Receiving Significant Percentage of Total Non-Directed Orders:

Knight Securities  11.11% 
BATS Exchange  42.59% 
UBS Securities LLC  45.68% 
Hudson Securities  0.62% 

Types of Orders Routed to Venue

  Market orders as
a % of total
market orders
Limit orders as a
% of total limit
orders
Other orders as 
% of total other
orders
Knight Securities  66.67%  27.78%  5.56% 
 
BATS Exchange  86.96%  13.04%  0.00% 
BATS Fee Schedule 
UBS Securities LLC  90.54%  9.46%  0.00% 
 
Hudson Securities  0.00%  100.00%  0.00% 
 

Securities Listed on the AMEX (American Stock Exchange)

Summary Statistics:

Non-directed orders as percentage of total customer orders 100.00% 
Market orders as percentage of total non-directed orders 53.85% 
Limit orders as percentage of total non-directed orders 46.15% 
Other orders as percentage of total non-directed orders 0.00% 

Venues Receiving Significant Percentage of Total Non-Directed Orders:

Knight Securities  53.85% 
BATS Exchange  7.69% 
UBS Securities LLC  38.46% 

Types of Orders Routed to Venue

  Market orders as
a % of total
market orders
Limit orders as a
% of total limit
orders
Other orders as 
% of total other
orders
Knight Securities  14.29%  85.71%  0.00% 
 
BATS Exchange  100.00%  0.00%  0.00% 
BATS Fee Schedule 
UBS Securities LLC  100.00%  0.00%  0.00% 
 

Exchange Listed - Options

Summary Statistics:

Venues Receiving Significant Percentage of Total Non-Directed Orders:

Types of Orders Routed to Venue

  Market orders as
a % of total
market orders
Limit orders as a
% of total limit
orders
Other orders as 
% of total other
orders