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The key takeaways are that NASDAQ combines aspects of both quote- and order-driven markets, allowing multiple participants to trade through a sophisticated network. It provides listed companies with unmatched liquidity and depth.

The main types of market participants on NASDAQ are market makers, order entry firms, and alternative trading systems (ATSs) like electronic communication networks (ECNs) and unlisted trading privileges (UTP) exchanges.

Some of the key features of NASDAQ's Super Montage trading system are that it fully integrates public limit order books and market maker quotations, allows multiple quotes at single or multiple price levels, and displays aggregate buy and sell interest five levels deep while time-stamping orders.

Market participants

NASDAQ's inclusive screen-based model, where multiple market participants openly compete for order flow, provides listed companies with unmatched liquidity and depth throughout each trading day. NASDAQ combines the most efficient aspects of both the quote- and order-driven markets, allowing multiple participants to trade with each other through a sophisticated computer and telecommunications network. NASDAQ market participantsapproximately 1,000are made up of market makers, order entry firms, and alternative trading systems (ATSs) that include electronic communication networks (ECNs) and unlisted trading privileges (UTP) exchanges. NASDAQ allows all participants equal access to the market and to market information through a simultaneous broadcast of quotes over computer terminals. Trading information is broadcast to over 1.2 million users in 83 countries. NASDAQ trades are facilitated through NASDAQ Workstation 2 presentation devices, numbering 11,000.

ECNs
Electronic Communication Networks (ECNs) are electronic trading systems that display orders in NASDAQ. ECNs were integrated into the market in 1997 as part of implementation of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) order handling rules. Certied by the SEC, ECNs must be registered with NASDAQ and NASD to participate in the NASDAQ market. ECNs display either one-sided or two-sided quotes, which reflect actual orders.

Market Makers
NASDAQ market makers are independent dealers competing for investor orders by displaying buy and sell interest in NASDAQ-listed securities. Nearly 300 active registered firms commit capital in the securities in which they choose to make a market. Market makers display both quotes and orders in NASDAQ, in compliance with the 1997 Securities and Exchange Commission Order Handling Rules. Displaying two-sided quotes in all securities that they choose to make a market in, market makers are subject to disciplinary action if they fail to honor their quoted prices. NASDAQ achieves market depth averaging 14 market makers per stock.

Order-entry Firms
A NASDAQ order-entry firm is a type of broker/dealer that enters customer orders into the NASDAQ system. Adding to the market's liquidity by bringing additional orders into NASDAQ, order-entry firms have the ability to access bid and ask quotes for market makers and NASDAQ-listed securities. However, they differ from market makers in that they do not commit capital.

Market Sales Contacts


Market Sales 888-811-3891 Mark DeNat Senior Vice President 212-858-4326 Fax 646-625-6146 [email protected]

Super Montage
NASDAQs next generation trading system, Super Montage, provides more trade information and processes quotes and orders more efficiently than previously processed. At the core of Super Montage is a new central display montage from which participants can, for the first time, enter multiple levels of trading interest. Super Montage is the first stock market platform that:

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Fully integrates a public limit order book and market maker quotations. Allows market makers and ECNs to enter multiple quotes at single or multiple price levels. Displays orders either anonymously or by name. Shows aggregate investor buy and sell interest five levels deep. Time-stamps individual orders to preserve position and priority.

These Super Montage features add up to a fairer, more level playing field for all market participants, increasing market quality and investor protection.

Primex
The Primex Auction System is a unique digital trading system for NASDAQ and other exchange-listed stocks. For all its participants, the Primex Auction System offers a market-based solution for providing price and size improvement opportunities. The system is designed specically to help brokers facilitate best execution for their customer orders. NASDAQ has an exclusive license to operate the Primex Auction System as a facility of its market for U.S. equities.

Data Product
NASDAQ is committed to delivering the highest quality market data available. What distinguishes NASDAQ among other U.S. stock markets is our ability to provide varying levels of detail according to the needs of individual users and their customers. Distributed to over half a million industry professionals and millions of investors, NASDAQs market data is derived from over 350,000 terminals worldwide, reaching all workstations in 500 milliseconds or less. Affordable for all investors, monthly access to NASDAQs real-time data costs an individual investor less than an ATM transaction. With Super Montage, NASDAQ offers four unprecedented new data products: QuoteView provides each Super Montage participant's best bid and offer, as well as the aggregate best bid and offer available on Super Montage. This service is an updated version of the current Level 2 data service and consists of the data available on the NASDAQ Quotation Dissemination Service (NQDS) data feed. DepthView shows the aggregate size, by price level, of all NASDAQ market participants attributed and unattributed quotations/orders that are in the top ve price levels in Super Montage. This view service is based on the information available in the Aggregated Depth at Price (ADAP) data feed and allows large investors to know how many shares they can trade within NASDAQ without having any price impact.

PowerView bundles Quoteview and DepthView by combining the NQDS and ADAP data feeds. TotalView offers the PowerView services plus all NASDAQ market participants attributed quotations/orders that are in the top ve price levels in Super-Montage, in addition to the aggregate size of all unattributed quotes/orders at each of the top ve price levels. To create a TotalView display, distributors must receive and process the NASDAQ Prime data feed.

Market Participants
Name Description Name: "Byblos Bank Armenia" Closed Joint Stock Company Short: "Byblos Bank Armenia" CJSC Chief Executive Officer: Ararat Ghukasyan Address: 18/3 Amiryan str., Yerevan 0002, RA Name: Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia Short: CBA Chairman: Artur Javadyan Address: 6 Vazgen Sargsyan str., Yerevan 0010, RA Name: "F.I.C.O Universal Credit Organisation" Limited Liability Company Short: "F.I.C.O UCO" LLC Executive Director: Irina Simonyan Address: 5/15, Kasyan str., Yerevan 0033, RA Name: "MELGRI UNION" Limited Liability Company Short: "MELGRI UNION" LLC Director: Armen Vardanyan Address: apt. 219, N 3, 8 Vardananc str, Yerevan 0010, RA Name: "Mellat Bank" Closed Joint Stock Company Short: "Mellat Bank" CJSC Executive Director: Mohammad Bagheri Address: 6 Amiryan str., Yerevan 0010, RA Name: "SEF INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSAL CREDIT ORGANIZATION" Limited Liability Company Short: "SEF INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSAL CREDIT ORGANIZATION" LLC Executive Director: Garegin Gevorgyan Address: 19/19 Yervand Kochar str., Yerevan, RA

Byblos Bank Armenia (ITBNK)

Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia (CBANK)

F.I.C.O Universal Credit Organisation (FICOU)

MELGRI UNION (MEGUN)

Mellat Bank (MELAT)

SEF INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSAL CREDIT ORGANIZATION (SEFIN)

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