Day 6 of 12: Election Results – UK large and mid cap market volumes by trading mechanism
The impact of the results of the UK General Election on market volumes was dramatic, with UK volumes more than doubling. We looked more closely at how the underlying venues and mechanisms benefitted in relative terms.
The left hand side of the chart shows the volumes traded on Friday by mechanism. The right hand side shows the percentage increase by mechanism compared to the previous day. Market participants needed to react quickly to position themselves.
This can be clearly seen with the opening auction having the greatest change relative to the previous day. Second were the Large In Scale and dark venues. Under these conditions, different strategies are necessary for speed of implementation and access to significant blocks of liquidity.
The mechanism least affected was the closing auction. This raises interesting questions about what has driven the growing popularity of the Closing Auctions at the expense of the rest of the trading day.
Liquidity Cockpit users are able to look at any stock this way and see the venues broken down. Clients using our Execution Analysis/TCA are able to measure execution performance with the demonstrated precision and flexibility.
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On our 12 Days of Trading
As the year draws to a close we have been asked by clients to repeat our festive exercise on the 12 days leading up to the holidays. As a result, you will find a post to a different 2019 big-xyt observation each day. We look and highlight trends since the introduction of MiFID II with a focus on this year’s changes or events.
We hope you enjoy them.
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