Market Conduct Information
Global financial regulatory bodies are increasingly focused on market conduct rules across the financial markets and products. Consequently new financial regulation comes into force on an ongoing basis, and most recently through the introduction of Market Abuse Regulation.
Full compliance with the rules and regulations is required by all customers. Below, you will find an overall description of the rules. You will also find a non-exhaustive list describing situations which you need to avoid as these constitute violations of market rules.
Market Conduct Rules
Regulation of the financial markets and market conduct rules are aimed at ensuring trust and integrity and thus promoting integrated, efficient and transparent markets. Specific rules set forth unacceptable market conduct by prohibiting the abuse of insider information and various forms of market manipulation. The exchanges/trading venues may have specific rules about market disruption so at the end of this document you will find links to the relevant sites. One example of such rules is that some exchanges have specific limits for the size of positions in various derivatives.
Market conduct rules and regulation applies to all individuals and all legal entities. Therefore all market participants are obliged to familiarise themselves with the relevant rules and regulations.
Trading activity is being monitored and any suspicious activity will be investigated by the relevant markets and authorities.
The following is a non-exhaustive list of examples of conduct that violate market conduct rules:
- Taking advantage of price sensitive non-published information concerning a company in order to make a profit or avoid incurring losses by buying or selling stocks and/derivatives or to attempt to take advantage of the said information in any other way (insider trading).
- Passing on insider information.
- Disseminating false or misleading information on circumstances of substantial importance for the valuation of a security (e.g. a company’s earnings, orders or product pipeline or a general supply shortage).
- Disseminating false or misleading information, rumors or messages that may influence the price of a security with the intent to exploit the resulting price movement.
- Entering low-volume purchase orders with successively higher prices in order to
Simulate an increased demand amid rising prices (painting the tape). - Simultaneously buying and selling the same securities for the account of one and the same beneficial owner in order to create false or misleading signals regarding the supply of, demand for, or market price of securities (wash trades).
- To distort liquidity or prices by entering equal but opposite buy and sell orders in the same security by prior mutual agreement between a number of parties (matched orders or daisy chains coordinated among a number of parties).
- Constricting the market by building up large positions (cornering) or depositing securities with third parties (parking) in order to distort securities prices (creating a squeeze).
- Buying or selling securities shortly before the exchange closes with the intent to influence closing prices (marking the close).
- Buying or selling securities in order to move prices (ramping) or keep them at a specific level (e.g. capping, pegging).
- Influencing commodity prices in order to give out false or misleading signals regarding the supply of, or demand for, securities.
- Placing orders but with no intention to execute (spoofing).
- Similar to spoofing, market participants “layer” or “bait” other market participants to react and trade with bona fide order on the other side of the market without intention to trade (layering).
- Attempting to push down the price of a stock by heavy selling or short selling (bear raiding).
For further information regarding market regulations and practices for various exchanges, please see below.
Market Conduct Rules by Exchange
| Exchange name | Symbol | Rules and regulation |
|---|---|---|
| North America & Canada | ||
| NASDAQ | NASDAQ & NSC | Read more |
| New York Stock Exchange | NYSE & ARCA | Read more |
| NYSE MKT | AMEX | Read more |
| OTC Bulletin Board/Pink Sheets | OOTC & OTCBB | Read more |
| Toronto Stock Exchange | TSE | Read more |
| TSX Venture Exchange | TSX | Read more |
| Europe / Middle East / Africa | ||
| Athens Exchange | AT | Read more |
| BME Spanish Exchanges | SIBE | Read more |
| Deutsche Börse (XETRA) | FSE | Read more |
| Irish Stock Exchange | ISE | Read more |
| London Stock Exchange (IOB) | LSE_INTL | Read more |
| London Stock Exchange | LSE_SETS | Read more |
| Milan Stock Exchange | MIL | Read more |
| NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen | CSE | Read more |
| NASDAQ OMX Helsinki | HSE | Read more |
| NASDAQ OMX Stockholm | SSE | Read more |
| NYSE Euronext Amsterdam (AEX) | AMS | Read more |
| NYSE Euronext Brussels | BRU | Read more |
| NYSE Euronext Lisbon | LISB | Read more |
| NYSE Euronext Paris | PAR | Read more |
| Oslo Stock Exchange | OSE | Read more |
| Prague Stock Exchange | PRA | Read more |
| SIX Swiss Exchange | SWX & VX | Read more |
| Vienna Stock Exchange | VIE | Read more |
| Warsaw Stock Exchange | WSE | Read more |
| Johannesburg Stock Exchange | JSE | Read more |
| Asia / Pacific | ||
| Australian Securities Exchange | ASX | Read more |
| Hong Kong Exchanges | HKEX | Read more |
| Singapore Exchange | SGX-ST | Read more |
| Tokyo Stock Exchange | TYO | Read more |
| Futures Exchanges | ||
| Chicago Mercantile Exchange | CME | Read more |
| Chicago Board of Trade | CBOT | Read more |
| Chicago Board Options Exchange | CBOE | Read more |
| Commodity Exchange | COMEX | Read more |
| New York Mercantile Exchange | NYMEX | Read more |
| Euronext Equity and Index Derivatives | AMS | Read more |
| European Energy Exchange | EEX | Read more |
| Euronext Equity and Index Derivatives | PAR | Read more |
| Euronext Commodities Derivatives | PAR | Read more |
| Hong Kong Exchanges | HKEX | Read more |
| ICE Futures Europe | ICE | Read more |
| ICE Futures Europe-Financials | ICE-LIF | Read more |
| ICE Futures U.S. | NYBOT | Read more |
| ICE Futures Europe- Soft Commodities | ICE-SOFT | Read more |
| Borsa Italiana SpA | IDEM | Read more |
| Spanish Official Exchange | MEFF | Read more |
| Bourse de Montreal | MON | Read more |
| Osaka Exchange | OSA | Read more |
| Sydney Futures Exchange | SFE | Read more |
| Singapore Exchange | SGX | Read more |
| NASDAQ OMX Stockholm | SSE | Read more |
| EUREX | Eurex | Read more |
| Options Exchanges | ||
| Australian Securities Exchange | ASX | Read more |
| Euronext Equity and Index Derivatives | AMS | Read more |
| Euronext Equity and Index Derivatives | PAR | Read more |
| EUREX | Eurex | Read more |
| Hong Kong Exchanges | HKEX | Read more |
| ICE Futures Europe-Financials | ICE-LIF | Read more |
| Borsa Italiana SpA | IDEM | Read more |
| NYSE | NYSE | Read more |
| NYSE Arca | ARCA | Read more |
| BATS | BATS | Read more |
| Boston Options Exchange | BOX | Read more |
| Chicago Board Options Exchange | CBOE | Read more |
| C2 | C2 | Read more |
| International Securities Exchange | ISE | Read more |
| MIAX | MIAX | Read more |
| NASDAQ | NASDAQ | Read more |
| Euronext Commodities Derivatives | PAR | Read more |
| Hong Kong Exchanges | HKEX | Read more |
| ICE Futures Europe | ICE | Read more |
| ICE Futures Europe-Financials | ICE-LIF | Read more |
| ICE Futures U.S. | NYBOT | Read more |
| ICE Futures Europe- Soft Commodities | ICE-SOFT | Read more |
| Borsa Italiana SpA | IDEM | Read more |
| Spanish Official Exchange | MEFF | Read more |
| Bourse de Montreal | MON | Read more |
| Osaka Exchange | OSA | Read more |
| Singapore Exchange | SGX | Read more |
| Chicago Mercantile Exchange | CME | Read more |
| Chicago Board of Trade | CBOT | Read more |
| Commodity Exchange | COMEX | Read more |
| New York Mercantile Exchange | NYMEX | Read more |
| NASDAQ OMX Stockholm | SSE | Read more |
| Oslo Bors | OSE | Read more |
OTC Markets (Forex and other Derivatives)
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Prohibited Actions
It is absolutely prohibited for the Client to take any of the following actions in relation to Global Trading Limitedís systems and/or Platform(s) and/or Client Account:
- Use, without the prior and written consent of Global Trading Limited, of any software, which applies artificial intelligence analysis to Global Trading Limitedís systems and/or Platform(s) and/or Client Account.
- Intercept, monitor, damage or modify any communication which is not intended for him.
- Use any type of spider, virus, worm, Trojan-horse, time bomb or any other codes or instructions that are designed to distort, delete, damage or disassemble the Platform(s) or the communication system or any system of Global Trading Limited.
- Send any unsolicited commercial communication not permitted under applicable law or Applicable Regulations.
- Do anything that will or may violate the integrity of Global Trading Limited computer system or Platform(s) or cause such system(s) to malfunction or stop their operation.
- Unlawfully access or attempt to gain access, reverse engineer or otherwise circumvent any security measures that Global Trading Limited has applied to the Platform(s).
- any action that could potentially allow the irregular or unauthorized access or use of The Platform(s).
- send massive requests on the server which may cause delays in the execution time.
- Global Trading Limited reasonably suspects that the Client performed a prohibited action
- Global Trading Limited reasonably suspects that the Client performed Abusive Trading. Abusive Trading shall include any of the following actions such as, but not limited to, Snipping, Scalping, Pip-hunting, Hedging, placing ìbuy stopî or ìsell stopî Orders prior to the release of financial data, arbitrage, manipulations, a combination of faster/slower feeds, abuse of the cancelation of trades feature available on the Platform or use (without the prior and written consent of Global Trading Limited) of any software, which applies artificial intelligence analysis to Global Trading Limitedís systems and/or platform(s) and/or client account.