Top Ten Liquidity Providers - July 2010

More and more firms are choosing The NASDAQ Stock Market as their preferred trading platform for its reliability, immediacy and efficiency in trade execution. The NASDAQ Stock Market continues to lead in U.S. Equity volume thanks to the top firms putting the highest levels of liquidity into the market for both NASDAQ– and NYSE-listed securities. Choosing NASDAQ as your trading venue ensures access to this growing concentration of liquidity.

NASDAQ Securities

Rank MPID Firm Name
1 WEDB Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc.
2 OCTG GETCO, LLC
3 BCAP Barclays Capital Inc.
4 CDRG Citadel Securities, LLC
5 MSCO Morgan Stanley & Co, Inc.
6 UBSS UBS Securities, LLC
7 MLCO Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.
8 NITE Knight Capital Group
9 GSCO Goldman, Sachs & Co.
10 JPMS J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.

NYSE Securities

Rank MPID Firm Name
1 WEDB Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc.
2 OCTG GETCO, LLC
3 CDRG Citadel Securities, LLC
4 MLCO Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.
5 UBSS UBS Securities, LLC
6 NITE Knight Capital Group
7 MSCO Morgan Stanley & Co, Inc.
8 GSCO Goldman, Sach & Co.
9 SBSH Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
10 JPMS J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.

 

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Liquidity provider is defined as the market participant whose quote or order is accessed via NASDAQ. This list includes consenting market participants. The above ranking is provided by NASDAQ’s Economic Research Department.

For NASDAQ-listed securities, liquidity provider ranking is calculated based on shares of NASDAQ-listed securities executed on NASDAQ. All market participants with at least one registered market maker ID and with active market maker positions in at least 350 NASDAQ- or other exchange-listed issues are ranked by volume, including ECNs. For NYSE-listed securities, liquidity provider ranking is calculated based on shares of NYSE-listed securities executed on NASDAQ. All market participants are ranked by volume.

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