BATS Global Markets (BATS) today reported April volume, market share, and monthly highlights including its best month on record for U.S. Options market share, 9.9%, and second-best month on record for U.S. equities market share, 21.2%.
BATS Options’ April 2015 market share rose from 4.2% one year ago and surpassed the previous monthly market share record of 9.4% set in March 2015. Also in the U.S., BATS remained the #1 U.S. market for ETF trading in executing 26.3% of all ETF trading volume.
In Europe, BATS Chi-X Europe, already the region’s largest stock exchange, had an exceptionally strong month across key European indices, trading 30.2% of both the German DAX and MDAX; 28.6% of the French CAC40; and 27.3% of both the Dutch AEX and Swedish OMXS30. It was also the second-best month for market share in Spain’s IBEX35 stocks, at 21.2%.
Additionally, BXTR, BATS Chi-X Europe’s trade reporting facility, had its most successful month ever with more than €506.9 billion reported in total during April, an average of €25.3 billion each trading day.
Hotspot, BATS’ institutional spot foreign exchange market, posted average daily volume of $28.4 billion in April, up from $25.2 billion one year ago. Beginning this month, Hotspot is offering free trading in spot gold and silver for all customers.
In all, the BATS markets executed $126.1 billion of notional volume per day in April.
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