Trading Procedure

Equities Trading

Trading Hours
SET trading is conducted on all bank business days, normally Monday through Friday. There are two trading sessions per day, morning and afternoon except Cross-border Products.
Trading SessionPeriodTrading MethodTrading Type

Pre-open Session I

9.30 a.m. - T1

  • Auction
  • Board Lot

Trading Session I

T1 - 12.30 p.m.

  • Automated Order Matching: AOM
  • Board Lot
  • Odd Lot
  • Trade Report
  • Trade Report – Big Lot
  • Trade Report – Foreign
  • Trade Report – Buy-in
  • Trade Report - Member buy-in

Intermission

Pre-open Session II

14.00 p.m. - T2

  • Auction
  • Board Lot

Trading Session II

T2 - 16.30 p.m.

  • Automated Order Matching: AOM
  • Board Lot
  • Odd Lot
  • Trade Report
  • Trade Report – Big Lot
  • Trade Report – Foreign

Pre-close

16.30 p.m. - T3

  • Auction
  • Board Lot
  • Trade Report
  • Trade Report – Big Lot
  • Trade Report – Foreign

Off-hour

T3 - 17.00 p.m.

  • Trade Report
  • Trade Report – Big Lot
  • Trade Report – Foreign
  • Trade Report – Off-hour

Market Close

17.00 p.m.

 

 

For Cross-border Products, which is using the foreign stock, foreign mutual fund or foreign index as the reference asset, will have one all day trading session.

Trading SessionPeriodTrading MethodTrading Type

Pre-open Session

9.30 a.m. - T1

  • Auction
  • Board Lot

Trading Session

T1 - 16.30 p.m.

  • Automated Order Matching: AOM
  • Board Lot
  • Odd Lot
  • Trade Report
  • Trade Report – Big Lot
  • Trade Report – Buy-in*
  • Trade Report - Member buy – in*

Pre-close

16.30 p.m. - T3

  • Auction

Board Lot

  • Trade Report
  • Trade Report – Big Lot

Off-hour

T3 - 17.00 p.m.

  •  Trade Report
  • Trade Report – Big Lot
  • Trade Report – Off-hour

Market Close

17.00 p.m.

 

 

*Trade Report – Buy-in and Trade Report - Member buy – in, must be done within the time specified by TCH

Remarks

T1   is the random opening time between 09:55 – 10:00 for calculating the opening prices for the morning trading session.

T2   is the random opening time between 14:25 – 14:30 for calculating the opening prices for the afternoon trading session.

T3   is the random closing time between 16:35 – 16:40 for calculating the closing prices of each day.

DRx Trading Hours

Trading SessionPeriodTrading MethodTrading Type

Pre-open Session

Asia: 06:45-17:00
US: 19:45 - 20:00 (T+1)

  • Only allows cancel orders. 
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Trading Session

Asia: 07:00-17:00 
US : 20:00-04:00 (T+1)

  • Automated Order Matching: AOM
    Limit orders will be valid in the trading system until such orders are cancelled. (Good till Cancel)
  • No Board Lot
  • Min 0.0001 unit 


 

Market Close

Asia :17.00 
US: 04:00 (T+1)

 

 


Remarks

●T+1 : Next trading day (T+1), e.g. trading between 20:00 on Friday evening – 4:00 on Saturday morning is considered a trading transaction on Monday,
●SET displays a Halt (H) sign on a security to indicate that the security is out of Trading Session.