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Morley Conn

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The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

It goes back to experience.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

Pricing a lot of block trades and knowing where you think you're going to be able to hedge that risk.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

Another factor is market tone on the day.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

Is it a positive day?

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

Do you think it's going to be difficult to get your hedges in?

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

Or is it a negative day and it's going to be difficult to find buyers of the underlying securities?

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

That sort of tone, it's only sitting on a desk and seeing and experiencing it for a prolonged period of time that you'll really get a sense of how to price and how to trade it.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

The term block trade is pretty wide anyways, because it depends on the underlying market.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

Like I have a screen set up that any trade in theory, a million dollars or more is considered kind of a block trade, but a million dollar trade, you know, a million dollars worth of trade in something like a very liquid trade underlying the TSX 60 or 300 or the S&P 500 for that matter, that's nothing.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

Like block trades would be in the hundreds of millions, like sizable trade that would be very challenging to trade would be hundreds of millions of dollars worth of trade.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

But in theory, a trade in excess of a million dollars could be considered a block.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

But as mentioned, trades of that size in very active ETFs,

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

are not a big deal.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

It's only more sizable, but it's going to depend.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

There's going to be some types of ETFs where $10 million is going to be a very significant move, moving 10 million worth of those securities.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

Whereas in more active, big indices, as mentioned, it's going to be a lot larger.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

But we use the gauge of a million dollars, but it really does vary from ticker to ticker.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

Yes, there's a lot of work that goes behind the scenes.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

Each of the banks for our ETF market making operations, we have teams of developers that support our models.

The Rational Reminder Podcast
How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

So we get, as mentioned from the custodians, we will get...