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A Unique Market with Outstanding Liquidity
As a participant on the Swiss Stock Exchange, you gain access to over 46,000 securities, including some of Europe’s most important blue-chip stocks such as Nestlé, Roche and Novartis.
As the reference market for this unique universe of securities, the Swiss Stock Exchange offers you the best order-book quality for Swiss securities, even at the largest volumes. The average size of trades in SMI securities is more than twice that of alternative trading platforms. And there are many more good reasons to trade with us.
And, you can also rely on some of the world’s most advanced trading technology, innovative trading services as well as first-class services and expert support. Because on the Swiss Stock Exchange, the future of trading is now.
Joining the Exchange: Easy and Efficient
We want new participants to start trading as soon as possible, so we designed our onboarding process to ensure rapid access to the exchange. Admission can be completed in as little as four weeks. Our specialists are always available to guide you through the process from setting up your trading infrastructure to testing and go-live. They will also help you select the most appropriate connectivity option for your business, your trading strategies and your level of market activity. Support from our experts is available on your premises or through our helpdesk.
World-Class Trading Technology
The Swiss Stock Exchange runs X-stream INET, one of the world’s fastest and most advanced trading technologies. Offering an average latency of just 14 microseconds, efficient risk management, and outstanding capacity reserves, X-stream INET enables you to instantly implement your investment decisions.
Thanks to a wide range of interfaces and connectivity options to access the trading platform, both speed and capacity can be scaled to individual requirements.
The Benefits of a Direct Membership With the Swiss Stock Exchange
Three trading participants explain what they appreciate about the Swiss Stock Exchange and how this has manifested itself in the exceptional stock market year 2020. Representatives of St. Galler Kantonalbank, Privatbank IHAG and Liechtensteinische Landesbank praise the stability of the trading platform and the order book quality of the Swiss Stock Exchange during the Corona crisis, enumerate the various benefits of a direct membership and disclose which innovative services of SIX they appreciate the most.
Our Exceptional Securities Universe
On the Swiss Stock Exchange you get to trade across our exceptional range of attractive segments including: equities, bonds, Exchange Traded Funds, Sponsored Funds, Exchange Traded Products, traditional investment funds, and structured products.
Latest News
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Growing Choice for Crypto-Currency Investors on the Swiss Stock Exchange
With ETC Group, SIX welcomes a new ETP issuer on the Swiss Stock Exchange who provides investors new diversification opportunities with the newly listed BTCetc Bitcoin ETP.
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SIX Welcomes ETC Group as New ETP Issuer
Today, the Swiss Stock Exchange welcomes ETC Group as a new ETP issuer. With the listing of the BTCetc Bitcoin ETP (Primary Ticker: BTCE) by ETC Group, the Swiss Stock Exchange is strengthening its position as world leading marketplace for regulated crypto products.
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New Trading Participant joins the Swiss Stock Exchange
DRW Europe B.V. starts trading on the reference market for Swiss shares and gains access to over 46,000 securities, including some of Europe’s most important blue-chip stocks.
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Trading InfoSnack: Last Orders
The Equity experts of the Swiss Stock Exchange look at post-closing auction trading sessions across major stock exchanges with a particular focus on its own Trading-At-Last (TAL) solution.
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Examining Closing Auction Liquidity
In cooperation with the Swiss Stock Exchange, the University of St. Gallen published its latest research on liquidity-related price sensitivities of closing auctions in Equity markets.
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SIX takes ETF trading to the next level
Today, the Swiss Stock Exchange is launching its new Quote on Demand (QOD) trading service which supplements the previous Quote Driven Market (QDM) trading book.
Resources
For the use of the SWXess trading platform, various fees are charged to trading participants and reporting members.
For details on SIX fees, please refer to the following Lists of Charges:
SIX charges annual participation fees. For a direct access to the Exchange system, an additional access fee is charged.
SIX also charges a fee for all on-Exchange transactions and a reporting fee for the reception and processing of Trade Reports. The amount of the trading fee is calculated per transaction and participant and depends on the given participant's total trading turnover (money involved; ad valorem fee) and number of transactions.
For certain product segments, SIX makes available special trading capacity in the form of quotes per second (QPS), FIX transactions per second (FTPS) or OUCH transactions per second (OTPS). In return for payment of a monthly capacity fee, SIX can allocate additional trading capacity (QPS, FTPS or OTPS) for use by the participant.
Under certain circumstances, extraordinary fees, such as supervision and investigation fees, are payable.
- Trading Guide
- Business Day Overview
- Market Model and Order Validity Overview
- Market Model and Trading Interruptions
- Trading Period Overview
- Trading Period Overview Quote on Demand
- Product Guide Equity Market
- Product Guide Bond Market
- Product Guide - Fund Market and Other Financial Products
- Product Guide - Structured Products Market
- Product Guide - Trading without pre-trade transparency (Swiss Shares and Investment Funds)
- Product Guide – Trading without pre-trade transparency (ETFs, ETF on the bonds of the Swiss Confederation, ETP)
- Price Step Overview (Tick Sizes) – Equity Market
- Price Step Overview (Tick Sizes) – Fund, Bond, Structured Products and Other Financial Products
- Trade Types and Flags
- Deferred Publication Thresholds and Delays
- Emergency Deletions
- SWXess – On Order Book Functionality
- SWXess – Off Order Book Functionality
- Trading Calendar 2020
- Trading Calendar 2021
- Reporting Guide
Rules and regulations, Directives and Guidelines that are no longer legally valid are available in the archive
of SER (SIX Exchange Regulation AG).