Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing (HKEx) Is The World’s Biggest Exchange Operator
By Paul Ebeling
June 25, 2015
With a turnover of more than HK$5-B, HKEx was the most traded stock in Hong Kong before closing down 1.83% at HK$300.20.
that is totally irrelevant. Hardly any punter in HK trades this stock because of anything else than its high volatility and correlation with daily volume, the HK<->Shanghai stock connect volumes and the like.
punter? ha, whatever, that's a funny remark.
Then try Singapore Exchange, Australian Exchange, it's stagnated.
Huh?
The majority of HKEx volume is from retail?
you are reading a wrong report.
https://www.hkex.com.hk/eng/stat/research/Documents/cmts2014.pdf#page14
money is money, as long as you can make money no need to bother where does the money comes from.
Sure yet it still does not change the fact that HKEx is a punter's stock. And I would not really categorize turnover in this stock as institutional with even hk based "family offices" day trading this name on a daily basis.