May Trading Volumes at KCG Hotspot Flat at $25.9 Billion Daily
- The company has unveiled that it is more or less in line with the rest of the industry, announcing a mild pick-up by a touch lower than 3% to mark a slight rebound after notoriously slow figures in the month of April.

The KCG Group has unveiled that its KCG Hotspot unit dedicated to electronic FX trading is more or less in line with the rest of the industry, announcing a mild pick up by a touch lower than 3%, marking $25.9 billion per day in notional foreign exchange dollar volume. After notoriously slow FX volumes figures in the month of April across the industry, the ship seems to be turning, with the month of June looking quite promising following the ECB press conference last week and talk of rising interest rates in the UK by Bank of England Governor Mark Carney.
KCG Hotspot Volumes, May 2014
Meanwhile in market-making, the company has averaged $24.1 billion traded daily, 9.7 billion shares, and 3.6 million trades per day in U.S. equities.
As to the rest of KCG’s Global Execution Execution Execution is the process during which a client submits an order to the brokerage, which consequently executes it resulting in an open position in a given asset. The execution of the order occurs only when it is filled. There is typically a time delay between the placement of the order and the execution which is called latency.In the retail FX space, reliable brokers always strive to deliver best execution to their clients in order to maintain a solid business relationship with them. This is a co Execution is the process during which a client submits an order to the brokerage, which consequently executes it resulting in an open position in a given asset. The execution of the order occurs only when it is filled. There is typically a time delay between the placement of the order and the execution which is called latency.In the retail FX space, reliable brokers always strive to deliver best execution to their clients in order to maintain a solid business relationship with them. This is a co Read this Term Services, KCG's BondPoint averaged $130.7 billion per day in fixed income trading.
U.S. equity volumes came out at $227.6 billion and 5.8 billion shares traded per day. According to the company’s statement the realized Volatility Volatility In finance, volatility refers to the amount of change in the rate of a financial instrument, such as commodities, currencies, stocks, over a given time period. Essentially, volatility describes the nature of an instrument’s fluctuation; a highly volatile security equates to large fluctuations in price, and a low volatile security equates to timid fluctuations in price. Volatility is an important statistical indicator used by financial traders to assist them in developing trading systems. Traders In finance, volatility refers to the amount of change in the rate of a financial instrument, such as commodities, currencies, stocks, over a given time period. Essentially, volatility describes the nature of an instrument’s fluctuation; a highly volatile security equates to large fluctuations in price, and a low volatile security equates to timid fluctuations in price. Volatility is an important statistical indicator used by financial traders to assist them in developing trading systems. Traders Read this Term for the S&P 500 in the month of May was 8.3.
The KCG Group has unveiled that its KCG Hotspot unit dedicated to electronic FX trading is more or less in line with the rest of the industry, announcing a mild pick up by a touch lower than 3%, marking $25.9 billion per day in notional foreign exchange dollar volume. After notoriously slow FX volumes figures in the month of April across the industry, the ship seems to be turning, with the month of June looking quite promising following the ECB press conference last week and talk of rising interest rates in the UK by Bank of England Governor Mark Carney.
KCG Hotspot Volumes, May 2014
Meanwhile in market-making, the company has averaged $24.1 billion traded daily, 9.7 billion shares, and 3.6 million trades per day in U.S. equities.
As to the rest of KCG’s Global Execution Execution Execution is the process during which a client submits an order to the brokerage, which consequently executes it resulting in an open position in a given asset. The execution of the order occurs only when it is filled. There is typically a time delay between the placement of the order and the execution which is called latency.In the retail FX space, reliable brokers always strive to deliver best execution to their clients in order to maintain a solid business relationship with them. This is a co Execution is the process during which a client submits an order to the brokerage, which consequently executes it resulting in an open position in a given asset. The execution of the order occurs only when it is filled. There is typically a time delay between the placement of the order and the execution which is called latency.In the retail FX space, reliable brokers always strive to deliver best execution to their clients in order to maintain a solid business relationship with them. This is a co Read this Term Services, KCG's BondPoint averaged $130.7 billion per day in fixed income trading.
U.S. equity volumes came out at $227.6 billion and 5.8 billion shares traded per day. According to the company’s statement the realized Volatility Volatility In finance, volatility refers to the amount of change in the rate of a financial instrument, such as commodities, currencies, stocks, over a given time period. Essentially, volatility describes the nature of an instrument’s fluctuation; a highly volatile security equates to large fluctuations in price, and a low volatile security equates to timid fluctuations in price. Volatility is an important statistical indicator used by financial traders to assist them in developing trading systems. Traders In finance, volatility refers to the amount of change in the rate of a financial instrument, such as commodities, currencies, stocks, over a given time period. Essentially, volatility describes the nature of an instrument’s fluctuation; a highly volatile security equates to large fluctuations in price, and a low volatile security equates to timid fluctuations in price. Volatility is an important statistical indicator used by financial traders to assist them in developing trading systems. Traders Read this Term for the S&P 500 in the month of May was 8.3.