pitbull74 & ALL
Is see the spread saying they are not trading, yet. But first you get your name on the list, right? Today was the first time they appeared on the list.
I don't know what must be done, to become listed, as an exchange trading a stock, the procedure, but it must involve a examination of cost vs. return and a plan, possibility some registration costs.
I mean they are a business, making a business decision. It's not just one guy sitting there decided to turn a switch on and bang, your trading stock X,Y, OR Z. Then every exchange would trade every stock. There is at least inventory to keep in mind.
There has to be some board at Boston that evals, what stock could become profitable for the exchange and some expense and procedure involved.
Just makes no sense to me to go threw "whatever", to start a new stock in their portfolio now, unless the big guys at Boston knows something the public doesn't.
It's my "learn what the big guys do" thing. And now I have a big guy doing something I don't understand from a business stand point.
One with tinfoil on their head, could think some inside info, may be floating around at higher levels of the exchange structure. And if new exchanges are jumping in now, I'd take that as a positive, big guy move, from GTE's shareholder point of view.