Financial services Firms published their Trading Volumes for August 2015
KCG Holdings, E*TRADE Financial Corporation and Alpari have issued press releases to inform regarding their Trading Volumes and Activity for August 2015.
KCG released for August that:
In Market Making, KCG averaged $35.6 billion dollar volume traded, 4.5 billion shares traded, and 4.6 million trades per day in U.S. equities.
In Global Execution Services:
KCG electronic execution averaged 336.9 million shares traded per day in U.S. equities
KCG BondPoint averaged $139.2 million per day in fixed income par value
As for the overall market conditions in August, consolidated U.S. equity volume averaged $321.3 billion in dollar volume and 7.9 billion shares traded per day. The realized volatility for the S&P 500 was 27.2.
In August, there were 21 trading days in U.S. equities and fixed income.
E*TRADE reported that:
Daily Average Revenue Trades (“DARTs”) for August were 179,908, including a record trading day for the Company on August 24 with over 394,000 trades. August DARTs represented a 21 percent increase from July and a 23 percent increase from the year-ago period. The Company added 37,750 gross new brokerage accounts in August, and ended the month with approximately 3.2 million brokerage accounts — an increase of 14,038 from July.
Net new brokerage assets were $1.4 billion in the month. During the month, customer security holdings decreased by six percent, or $11.9 billion, and brokerage-related cash decreased by $0.3 billion to $40.9 billion. Bank-related cash and deposits decreased by $0.1 billion, ending the month at $5.4 billion. Customers were net buyers of approximately $1.3 billion in securities during the month.
Alpari informed that:
August Trading Turnover Surpasses $87 Billion.
Specific, the company’s trading turnover for August 2015 stood at $87.5 billion.
