Besides public holiday, trading hours (Hong Kong Time) are as follows:
| Trading session |
Trading Hours |
| Pre-opening session (2) |
09:00 - 09:30 |
| Morning session |
09:30 - 12:00 |
| Extended morning session (1) |
12:00 - 13:30 |
| Afternoon session |
13:30 - 16:00 |
Notes:
(1) During Christmas Eve, New Year Eve and Chinese New Year Eve, there is no trading in extended morning session and afternoon session. If there is no trading in morning session, there will be no trading will be in the extended morning session on that day.
The Extended Morning Session is for the trading of Extended Trading Securities which currently include iShares Korea (4362) and iShares Taiwan (4363) only.
(2) Pre-opening session is divided into four stages
| Hong Kong Time |
AUO |
ALO |
| 09:00 - 09:15 |
Can input
Can amend
Can cancel |
Can input
Can amend
Can cancel |
| 09:15 - 09:20 |
Can input
Cannot amend
Cannot cancel |
Cannot input
Cannot amend
Cannot cancel |
09:20 - 09:28
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Trading orders will queue up in a sequence according to their categories (AUO is given the first priority), price and time. The orders will be matched sequentially starting from IEP |
| Unmatched orders will be cancelled automatically |
Unmatched orders will be transferred to the trading session in the morning |
| 09:28 - 09:30 |
All activities in the terminal system will be suspended until the start of the morning trading session |
| Hong Kong Time |
All type of orders |
| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Can input
Cannot cancel
Cannot amend |
| 13:00 - 13:30 |
Can Input
Can cancel
Cannot amend
(Problems may occur if orders are amended. Customers are suggested to cancel the order and then re-enter a new one.) |
Please study carefully the pre-opening mechanism from The Hong Kong Stock Exchange website.
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