FIF Capacity Statistics For April 2009: New Record Peaks for Deutsche Börse Eurex, Deutsche Börse CEF, Nasdaq UQDF, Nasdaq TotalView ITCH 3.1, Siac CTS, Siac CQS

This month’s bulletin from the Financial Information Forum (FIF) finds that Deutsche Börse CEF hit a new record of 145,814 messages per second over a one second interval, up 3% from the previous month.

Deutsche Börse Eurex hit a new record one second peak of 50,362 mps, up 44%.

Nasdaq UQDF hit a new record one second peak of 50,471 mps, up 18%.

Nasdaq TotalView ITCH 3.1 hit a new record peak of 139,880 mps over five seconds, up 1.3%.

Siac CTS hit a new one second record peak of 20,741, up 8%. Siac CQS hit a new record peak of 135,151 mps over one second, up 3%.

Siac OPRA was up 6% month on month at 869,109 mps. NYSE ArcaBook Options was up 12% month on month at 565,522 mps.

NYSE ArcaBook Equities was up 33% at 252,231 mps. The next meeting of the FIF MD Capacity WG is scheduled for June 18th @ 10:00 AM ET.

The FIF provides key data points for market data rates. Percentage increases based on a comparison between March and April peaks. Monthly data for OPRA, CTA, UTP, UQDF, UTDF, Bats, Nasdaq, Proprietary, NYSE ArcaBook, CME Group, Toronto and Deutsche Börse feeds are available for FIF members at http://www.fif.com/md_capacity.