FIF Capacity Statistics For December 2010: Six New Record Peaks: NASDAQ NLS, NASDAQ BONO, SIAC OPRA, SIAC CQS, NASDAQ ITTO, NASDAQ UTDF

This month’s bulletin from the Financial Information Forum (FIF) finds that NASDAQ NLS was up a record 74% to 73,214 mps over the 1 second interval

• NASDAQ BONO was up by 13% to a record peak of 202,175 mps over the 1 second interval
• SIAC OPRA broke the 2 million messages mark, up 11% to 2,145,754 mps
• SIAC CQS was also up a record 11% to 308,705 mps over the 1 second interval
• Message rates over the 1 second interval from NASDAQ ITTO went up 9% to a record 245,462 mps
• NASDAQ UTDF was up to 30,292 mps over the 1 second interval, a record increase of 6%

The next meeting of the FIF MD Capacity WG is scheduled for January 20th @ 10:00 AM ET.

The FIF provides key data points for market data rates. Percentage increases based on a comparison between November and December 1 second peaks (unless specified). Monthly data for OPRA, CTA, UTP, BATS U.S. and Europe, Direct Edge, NASDAQ Proprietary, LSE, Euronext, NYSE ArcaBook Equities and Options, CME Group, Toronto and Deutsche Börse feeds are available for FIF members at http://www.fif.com/md_capacity