KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) just released trade volumes for the month of December 2016.
In Market Making, KCG averaged $26.7 billion dollar volume traded – minus 18.6% MoM to be exact, 6.4 billion shares traded, and 3.4 million trades per day in U.S. equities.
In Global Execution Services:
- KCG Institutional Equities averaged 210.7 million U.S. equity shares traded per day
- KCG BondPoint averaged $239.7 million fixed income par value traded per day
As for the overall market conditions in December, consolidated U.S. equity volume averaged $265.4 billion in dollar volume and 6.9 billion shares traded per day. The realized volatility for the S&P 500 was 8.1.
In December there were 21 trading days in U.S. equities and 20 trading days in fixed income.