Knight is a key source of liquidity in this fragmented market environment. With our deep natural liquidity we are a leading market
destination providing customized trade executions and best-in-class client service.
We differentiate from other market destinations through the combination of deep liquidity from our inherent order flow from
buy- and sell-side clients, and our commitment to high-quality trade executions and our ability to handle trades of varying
size and complexity.
When liquidity is not naturally present in the market, we can provide capital facilitation to complete trades on our clients’
behalf or access the broader market through connections to multiple market destinations.
Key Liquidity Statistics
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Knight engages in trading and market-making in more than 19,000 U.S. securities
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Knight supplies liquidity to a great number of difficult-to-trade issues
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In 2009, Knight executed greater share volume than any U.S. exchange or securities firm
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In 2009, among securities firms, Knight ranked*:
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#1 in shares traded of Listed securities with 17.3% market share |
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#1 in shares traded of NASDAQ Capital Market, Global Market, and Global Select Market securities with a combined market share of 23.9% |
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#1 in shares traded of Bulletin Board and Pink Sheet securities with 86.5% market share |
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#1 shares traded of NASDAQ 100 securities with a 15.0% market share
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#1 shares traded of S&P 500 securities with a 15.1% market share
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In 2009:
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Knight executed more than 980 million trades, which is an average of 3.9 million trades per day, 601,000 trades per hour, 10,000 trades per minute and 167 trades per second
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Knight traded approximately 2.5 trillion shares, which is an average of 10.0 billion shares per day, 1.5 billion shares per hour, 25.7 million shares per minute and 428,000 shares per second
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Knight dollar value traded topped $5.7 trillion, which is an average of $23.0 billion per day, $3.5 billion per hour, $59 million per minute and $983,000 per second
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