SEC-Required Report on Routing of Customer Orders
For Quarter Ending Mon Mar 31 23:59:59 2008
Pennaluna & Company has prepared this report pursuant to a U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission rule requiring most 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, Pennaluna
has selected the execution venue on behalf of its customers.
The report is divided into three sections: one for securities listed on
the New York Stock Exchange; one for securities listed on The Nasdaq Stock
Market; one for securities listed on the American Stock Exchange or
regional exchanges. A fourth section for exchange-listed options does not
appear, because Pennaluna & Company does not trade options.
For each section, this report identifies the venues most often selected by
Pennaluna & Company and sets forth the percentage of various types of orders routed
to the venues. With respect to all orders, as is common practice within
the securities industry, Pennaluna & Company occasionally receives
remuneration in the form of rebates for the equity order flow it routes
for customer orders and such remuneration is considered compensation to
the firm. Such orders are executed at prices equal to or better than the
displayed national best bid/offer price. Presently such an arrangement
exists with Knight Securities of Jersey City, New Jersey and although not
all such orders are so directed nor are rebates available in many
instances, Pennaluna & Company occasionally receives rebates from Knight
for trades of 2,000 shares or more, such rebates being subject to a number
of conditions and never exceeding a maximum of one cent per share. When
received, such remuneration is used by Pennaluna & Company to help defray
the aggregate cost of executing trades for clients.