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Information disclosure before market opening and closing


Summary

Starting on June 29th, 2015, Taipei Exchange (hereinafter TPEx) and Taiwan Stock Exchange (hereinafter TWSE) disclose simulated transaction prices, simulated trading volumes, simulated best five bid/ask prices, and simulated bid/ask volumes for investors’ reference in making orders before market opening (08:30-09:00) and during the last five minutes before market closing (13:25-13:30).

According to the current system in Taiwan, orders are matched approximately every five seconds during the current intraday call auction. The prices and volumes of trading and the simulated best five bid/ask prices and volumes from order-matching are also disclosed for investors’ reference. Orders made upon preopening (08:30-09:00) are not matched, only accepted, and there is no information disclosure during this period. Ever since February 20th, 2012, for orders made during the last five minutes before market closing (13:25-13:30), the highest bid price and the lowest ask price of the order-matching simulation have been provided, and in event of extremely volatile price changes, a corresponding measure of temporary suspension from closing on the last minute has been implemented.

Ever since June 29th, 2015, an intraday volatility interruption system similar to that applied before market closing has been applied before market opening. If in the last 1 minute before market opening (08:59-09:00), a volatile change of a securities reference price reaches a specific rate simulated by the order-matching system,or if in the last 1 minute before market opening , the volume of cancellations and changes of trading quotes reaches 30 percent or more of the volume of trading quotes prior to market opening, market opening will be temporarily suspended 2 minutes for those individual stocks. During suspension, investors’ new orders, cancellations and revision requests will continue to be accepted and information of simulated transaction prices, simulated trading volumes, and simulated best five reported bid/ask prices and volumes will continually be disclosed to provide investors with an opportunity to consider adding, cancelling or altering an order of a stock with high price volatility before market opening.

Introduction to the Mechanism:

Information Disclosure before Market Closing

  1. Securities Subject to Information Disclosure.

    Except for securities of which the basis price of the opening of trading is less than NT$1, call (put) warrants and company warrants, information disclosure before market closing should apply to all types of securities.

  2. Method of Information Disclosure.

    During the trading orders acceptance period of the last five minutes before closing (13:25 to 13:30), disclosure information has been adjusted from the highest bid price and the lowest ask price of the order-matching simulation according to the intervals (approximately every 5 seconds) of the intraday call auction matching, to the simulated transaction price, simulated trading volume and the simulated best five bid/ask prices and bid/ask volumes.

Information Disclosure before Market Opening

  1. Securities Subject to Information Disclosure.

    All securities are subject to information disclosure before market opening starting from 8:30 and continually in accordance with the intervals of the intraday call auction matching. Except for securities of which the basis price of the opening of trading is less than NT$1, call (put) warrants, and company warrants, information disclosure before market opening should apply to all types of securities.

  2. Method of Information Disclosure.

    During the thirty minutes before opening (8:30 to 9:00) when orders are accepted, the simulated transaction price, the simulated trading volume and the simulated best five bid/ask prices and bid/ask volumes will be disclosed according to the intervals (approximately every 5 seconds) of the intraday call auction matching.

Supporting Measures for Suspension from Opening and Closing:

To provide investors with an opportunity to add, cancel or alter an order of a stock with high price volatility preopening or preclosing, the exchanges plan to implement an intraday volatility interruption system during opening and closing session.

  1. Closing:

    Starting on February 20th, 2012, in the 1 minute prior to market closing (13:29-13:30) for a security, if any given computed transaction price fluctuates beyond 3.5 percent from the previous computed transaction price (if there is no previous calculated transaction price available, the fluctuation shall be based on the most recent transaction price; if there is no most recent transaction price available, the fluctuation shall be based on the auction reference price at market opening), the closing and matching for that security will be suspended until 13:30.

    For suspended securities, addition, cancellation, or alteration of orders will be accepted within the 2 minutes between 13:31 to 13:33, when the market is closed and orders are otherwise not normally accepted. Starting on June 29th, 2015, during this suspension period (13:31-13:33), disclosed information will include the highest bid price and lowest ask price of an order-matching simulation, the simulated transaction prices, the simulated volumes, the simulated best five bid prices, bid volumes, and the simulated best five ask prices and ask volumes.

  2. Opening:

    In the 1 minute prior to market opening (8:59-9:00) for a security, if any given computed transaction price fluctuates beyond 3.5 percent from the previous computed transaction price (if there is no previous computed transaction price available 30 minutes before market opening, the fluctuation shall be based on the auction reference price at market opening), or if the volume of cancellations and changes of trading quotes reaches 30 percent or more of the volume of trading quotes prior to market opening, the opening and matching for that security will be suspended. Suspended securities will be matched two minutes later when the market opens. Within the 2 minutes where the opening is suspended, additions, cancellations, or alteration of orders will still be accepted, and during the suspension period, the simulated transaction prices, the simulated volumes, the highest five bid prices, bid volumes, and the lowest five ask prices and ask volumes will still be disclosed.

  3. Securities Not Subject to Supporting Measures
    1. Securities of which the basis price of the opening of trading is less than NT$1.
    2. Call (put) warrants and company warrants.
  4. Calculation of Market Index:

    Even if a stock is suspended from closing on a particular day, each index will be disclosed according to the regular time (approximately every 5 seconds). If a stock is suspended from closing on a particular day, the market index of that day will not be calculated until 13:33. If no stock is suspended from closing on a particular day, the market index of that day will be calculated approximately at 13:30.

 

Note: The above documents have been translated by the Linguitronics Co., Ltd. The English translation is for reference only. In case of any discrepancy between the English version and the Chinese version, the Chinese version shall prevail.