28/01/2016 – The quality is unmatched and Oslo Børs has 94% market share in Norwegian derivatives.Oslo Børs is the leading marketplace for Norwegian derivatives with a market share of 94 percentage in 2015. Oslo Børs can also demonstrate higher quality, in the form of improved prices and availability, than competing marketplace – which results in lowering the costs.
Some advantages of trading derivatives on Oslo Børs:
- Tighter spreads
- Higher volumes
- Continuous pricing in more series
- Oslo Børs is the only marketplace for OBX options and futures
Statistics shows that Oslo Børs on average in 2015 had 17% tighter spreads for Norwegian single stock options, and all the way down to 50% tighter for some underlying stocks, than comparable marketplace. Volumes were also much higher, and on average the volume available for trading on best bid/ offer on Oslo Børs was double that of comparable marketplace.
Commission and trading fees (direct costs) forms only a fraction of the total costs, while the spread cost (an indirect cost) constitute a larger share of the total costs. In brief the spread cost is the difference between the bid and the offer price in the market, following that the less the difference (tighter spreads), the less the spread cost.
For more information, see Oslo Børs Derivatives
