CHX today announced that during September the Exchange established several new post Regulation NMS implementation volume records. The Exchange set both daily and monthly count highs and continues to see high activity in October establishing a new daily trade high on October 6th with 100,175 trades. September monthly trades totaled 1,300,139, surpassing the old high set in March of this year.
The CHX also set a monthly record of 834,947,099 shares cleared through the Exchange's facilities and a daily reported share record of 58,188,160. Volume levels have remained at high levels in October.
Dave Herron, CHX CEO, said, "It is great to see the securities trading community increasing their use of our market. The CHX offers the high speed, high capacity trading engine customers demand in today's trading environment and the recent activity records are proving the competitive capabilities of our model. We are especially pleased with the performance of our technology platform as it has easily handled the ongoing unprecedented levels of market data and volatility in the marketplace."