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Thursday, 10/18/2012 9:46:20 AM

Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:46:20 AM

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Scottrade considers BCAP illiquid and will only permit sell at this time, no buys..


The combination of the deposit of a physical certificate and a subsequent trade in that security, which the depository has deemed to be illiquid, can result in exceptionally large requirements from the depository.

The risk deposit formula is based in part on liquidity and concentration and is also reflective of current regulatory and depository risk perspective of trading in low priced securities. In some cases, the deposit requirements exceed the value of the underlying trade by more than 100 times. For example, the depository requirement for one unsettled trade in an illiquid security done recently was $1.2 million, while the value of the underlying trade was less than $10,000.