The Tradegate Exchange achieved a new record in 2011 – a total of more than 5.6 million executions were made in equities, funds, ETFs and bonds. This corresponds to 75 percent growth year-on-year (2010: 3.2 million trades). The respective total volume in all securities was €32.7 billion (+84%, 2010: €17.8 billion).
Tradegate Exchange connected eight new trading participants in 2011: DZ Bank, WGZ Bank, Interactive Brokers (Timber Hill), equinet, Schnigge, Renell, Deutsche Apotheker und Ärztebank and Bankhaus Neelmayer. Their clients in Germany and abroad will now gain access to a securities exchange which is oriented specifically towards the needs of private investors. Tradegate Exchange enables them to trade every trading day from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., thus even outside the trading hours of other European exchanges. No commission or other stock market-specific fees are charged for trading. In addition, investors who trade on Tradegate Exchange can employ a number of intelligent order types, such as the trailing stop order or One-Cancels-Other order, and get a chance for making returns even in turbulent times.
“Tradegate Exchange is the trading venue of choice for increasing numbers of private investors; the turnover figures for 2011 speak for themselves. Most investors trade online, and we've now substantially expanded our offering for them,” said Jochen Thiel, managing director of Tradegate Exchange GmbH. “The website has been completely redeveloped and now also includes indicators for the DAX, MDAX, SDAX and TecDAX indices. These indicators are based on real-time exchange prices from the Tradegate Exchange, and are calculated by Deutsche Börse AG. Since August, investors have also had access to real-time prices through the Tradegate app for the iPhone, giving them a picture of current market activity at all times. The free app has already been downloaded over 40,000 times.”