BATS Reports U.S. Equity Mkt Share Dips to 20.1% in June to 6.41B Shares

BATS Global Markets today reported June U.S. equity volume was 20.1percent in June versus the 21.2 percent the bourse reported in May. Options volume was relatively flat for the month.

U.S. daily matched equity share in April’s was 21.2 percent compared to up versus the 19.1 percent posted one year ago.

Average daily volume for June was 1.29 billion shares versus May when it was 1.31 billion shares compared to 1.39 in April. Average daily matched volume on the BATS Exchanges was 1.12 billion shares a year ago.
Total industry U.S. equity volume was 6.41 billion shares in June, down from 6.20 billion shares in May and versus 5.79 billion shares one year ago.

One year ago matched U.S. equity market share was 19.2 percent.

BATS Trading is the first exchange to report equity trading volumes and as such is viewed as a preliminary barometer of overall trading activity.

U.S. options activity hit clocked in at 9.6 percent or 1,434,949 million contract, almost unchanged from from May’s 9.7 percent and 1,447,055 contracts and down versus 9.9 percent in April. One year ago volume stood at 580,646 or at a 3.9 percent.

Hotspot, BATS’ institutional spot foreign exchange market, posted average daily volume of $25.7 billion in June on $565.7 billion worth of trades. One year ago average daily volume was $27.5 billion.
BATS 1000 Index monthly performance closed at 22,672.47 up versus 21,267.00 in May but down from 23,099.14 in April. One year ago the index was 21,139.22.