Saturday, January 15, 2011

market knowledge and trading rules - HKSE

1. trading hour (Mon-Fri excluding public holiday; local time)
- pre-open auction session: 930 - 1000
- morning session: 1000 - 1230
- extended morning session: 1230 - 1430 (for extended trading securities only)
- afternoon session: 1430 - 1600

- half-day trading (ie, no extended morning and afternoon sessions) on eves of Christmas, New Year and Lunar New Year

2. pre-open session break down

a) 930 - 945 (order input period)
- input of both at-auction limit orders and at-auction orders
- orders mod or cxl

b) 945 - 950 (pre-order matching period)
- input of at-auction orders only
- no order mod or cxl

c) 950 - 958 (order matching period)
- orders are matched at the final Indicative Equilibrium Price

d) 958 - 1000 (blocking period)
- a break between pre-open and continuous trading sessions; no order input, mod or cxl

e) at the end of pre-open session, all unmatched orders shall be cancelled and deleted from the exchange automatically except for those at-auction limit orders whose specified price does not deviate 9 times or more from nominal price at that time

3. cancellation of orders

- orders entered in the morning session is permitted to cancel from 30 minutes before the afternoon trading session of the same trading day

4. trade prices

- closing price: median of last five nominal price at 15-second interval from 1559 to 1600.
- previous closing price
- open price: indicative equilibrium price
- day low price
- day high price
- bid price
- ask price
- current bid price
- current ask price

5. indicative equilibrium price (IEP) and indicative equilibrium volume (IEV)

- IEP is the price at which the max number of shares (IEV) can be traded if matching occurs at that time point; they're continuously re-calculated and updated each when a new order comes in during the order input period of the pre-opening session


6. types of orders

- at-auction limit order (orders with specified price during pre-open session)
- at-auction order (orders without specified price during pre-open session)
- limit order (only limit orders permitted during continuous trading session)
-- limit order
-- enhanced limit order
-- special limit order

7. epic codes for all HK listed stocks are numeric; different stocks have different board lots

8. ticks

- dependent on the current share price

Share price (HK$)Tick size
0.01 - 0.250.001
0.25 - 0.500.005
0.50 - 10.000.01
10.00 - 20.000.02
20.00 - 100.000.05
100.00 - 200.000.10
200.00 - 500.000.20
500.00 - 1,000.000.50
1,000.00 - 2,000.001.00
2,000.00 - 5,000.002.00
5,000.00 - 9,995.005.00

9. tolerance level

- 24 ticks (or 9 ticks for 1 bid/ask made in pre-open session)

10. settlement

- T+2

11. for more details

www.hkex.com.hk

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