BATS Global Markets reported its U.S. equities matched market share totaled 12.3 percent in July, jumping from 11.5 percent in June, and leaping from 11.1 one year ago. The exchange operator saw an average daily matched volume of 750 million shares during the month, off from 789.7 million shares in June.
In a release, BATS said its BATS U.S. cash equities market share of 12.29 percent was the company’s second best ever. Its best month came one year ago when its market share hit 12.34 percent in August.
In July 2011, BATS saw an average daily matched volume of 774.5 million shares.
In July, BATS Options saw its matched market share inch higher to 3.6 percent, down from 3.9 percent one year ago. Average daily matched volume plunged 22.0 percent to 517,079 shares from year-ago levels when 664,010 contracts traded.
The BATS 1000 Index, a broad based U.S. equities market benchmark, ended the month up 187.97 points, or 1.2 percent higher, to close at 15,497.44.
BATS operates two stock exchanges in the U.S., the BATS BZX Exchange and BATS BYX Exchange; as well as BATS Options, a U.S. equity options market; and BATS Europe and Chi-X Europe, which operate FSA-authorized multilateral trading facilities.
