The Golden Lounge

[Jim Bishop]

Geez, check out NITE's activity, especially so far this year...amazing.

http://www.knight.com/ourfirm/liquidity.asp

Key Liquidity Statistics

Knight engages in trading and market-making in more than 19,000 U.S. securities

Knight supplies liquidity to a great number of difficult-to-trade issues

In 2009, Knight executed greater share volume than any U.S. exchange or securities firm

In the first quarter of 2010, among securities firms, Knight ranked*:

- #1 in shares traded of Listed securities with 18.9% market share

- #1 in shares traded of NASDAQ Capital Market, Global Market, and Global Select Market securities with a combined market share of 22.8%

- #1 in shares traded of Bulletin Board and Pink Sheet securities with 84.3% market share

- #1 shares traded of NASDAQ 100 securities with a 13.8% market share

- #1 shares traded of S&P 500 securities with a 15.4% market share


In the first quarter of 2010:

Knight executed more than 225 million trades, which is an average of 3.7 million trades per day, 569,000 trades per hour, 9,500 trades per minute and 158 trades per second

Knight traded approximately 625 billion shares, which is an average of 10.2 billion shares per day, 1.6 billion shares per hour, 26.3 million shares per minute and 438,000 shares per second

Knight dollar value traded topped $1.6 trillion, which is an average of $26.6 billion per day, $4.1 billion per hour, $68.2 million per minute and $1.1 million per second