How the first weekend bidding went on the Moscow Exchange
The first weekend bidding took place on the Moscow Exchange quite actively, the volume of operations reached 10 billion rubles. However, despite the fact that he exceeded the competitor of the competitor – St. Petersburg exchange, he is still significantly lags from the results of additional trading sessions. A number of large brokers have not yet given customers the opportunity to trade in new mode due to the unpreparedness of infrastructure. In addition, the number of available tools, in fact, is limited by the composition of the IMOEX index, and the ability to trade fixed -term contracts, bonds and shares of Pyths will appear in a few months.
The total amount of operations on the Moscow Exchange in two days, March 1 and 2, amounted to 10.1 billion rubles. This result is still significantly lower than at other additional sessions of the trading platform. For example, last Friday, February 28, the volume of trading shares at the morning session (three hours) exceeded 12.5 billion rubles, and at the evening session (lasting almost five hours) – 81 billion rubles. As Dmitry Lesnov, Deputy General Director for Broke Burrier Business, noted, is that “these auction took place is already good because the Moscow Exchange stated that they would start in a test experimental regime (See “Kommersant” dated February 11) And there was not so much time to prepare. ”
Earlier, professional participants reacted rather restrainedly to the launch of such trading on the Moscow Exchange, more appealing only to the wishes of investors (see « Kommersant » from February 28). Dmitry Lesnov noted that, judging by the fact that not all brokers gave the opportunity to trade in the first weekend, « the number of participants is much less than on ordinary trading days. » The BCS said that several thousand customers took part on exchange auction on Saturday.
As Kommersant said on the Moscow Exchange, 23 professional participants took part in the auction, and more than 65 thousand investors made transactions in two days.
At the same time, the average deal was about 35 thousand rubles, which is higher than the SPb Exchange (about 20 thousand rubles). This speaks in favor of the predominance of private investors. For example, on Friday, at the main trading session of the Moscow Exchange, the average volume of transactions with shares amounted to 53 thousand rubles, at a morning session – over 62 thousand rubles, for the evening – almost 71 thousand rubles. Transactions were actively concluded with all available securities (53 shares). But the most liquid-shares of Gazprom, T-Technologies, Sberbank were in greatest demand. At the same time, the number of issuers, with the shares of which transactions were concluded over 100 million rubles, amounted to more than two dozen.
Given the “experimental nature” of the weekend of the weekend on the Moscow Exchange during this period, bidding with bonds, shares of Pyths and derivatives of tools are not yet available. Also, the Moscow Exchange index for additional sessions (IMOEX2) is not yet calculated. In general, bidding took place quite calmly, the vibrations of quotations for the most part did not exceed 2%. As Dmitry Lesnov explains, « there were no significant geopolitical events for the weekend. » At the same time, in previous days, the activity of investors increased sharply even during additional trade sessions – for example, after the conversation of the presidents of Russia and the USA (See “Kommersant” from February 13) or scandal in the White House at a meeting of the presidents of the United States and Ukraine.
In terms of bidding, the Moscow Exchange has already circled the competitor, but on St. Petersburg the Exchange of weekends also gained momentum.
For March 1–2 (as of 19:00 Sunday), the volume of operations on this site has already reached 1.34 billion rubles, thereby exceeding the result of all Sunday trading for February (1.2 billion rubles). Mostly shares of the site itself are traded on this exchange (the volume of bidding this weekend has already exceeded 1 billion rubles). However, it was also traded on it of two exchange pipes-“T-Capital Money Market” and “Alpha Capital Money Market”.
