Equity Market Structure Webinar: A Mid-Year Review

Gauging the new normal for volatility, volumes, market levels and retail investor participation.

In this report, we highlight the March 2021 market trends for volatility, price, and equity and options volumes.

Efficient and resilient market structure is key to sustaining investor confidence and participation in the equity markets. The goal of regulators and market participants is to promote market resiliency and ensure the U.S. equity markets continue to benefit investors and play an essential role in capital formation. In this post, we offer some background related to recent discussions around equity trading.

Market participants are wondering what the new normal will be as we move through 2021. Before we can look to the future, we must assess the past. Inside this note, we analyze 2020 trends for volatility and volumes, across U.S. cash equities, multi-listed options, ETFs, off-exchange trading levels and capital formation.