The following focus day scenario will be initiated in Eurex Exchange's T7 simulation environment today and be effective tomorrow:
Dividend payment in Stock Tracking Futures - effective 15 August 2019
Interested clients have the opportunity to test the clearing process in Stock Tracking Futures over a dividend payment in the underlying stock. The day after the announcement of the beginning of the focus day, Eurex will perform the adjustment of the settlement prices in all contracts where member have positions via technical trades.
In order to participate in this test, members are required to generate positions in their simulation account in the product 1ALV. If you need a counterparty in order to generate those positions, Eurex Market Supervision will kindly assist. On the effective day you will see:
Market Status ⓘ
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The market status window is an indication regarding the current technical availability of the trading system. It indicates whether news board messages regarding current technical issues of the trading system have been published or will be published shortly.
Please find further information about incident handling in the Emergency Playbook published on the Eurex webpage under Support --> Emergencies and safeguards. Detailed information about incident communication, market re-opening procedures and best practices for order and trade reconciliation can be found in the chapters 4.2, 4.3 and 4.5, respectively. Concrete information for the respective incident will be published during the incident via newsboard message.
We strongly recommend not to take any decisions based on the indications in the market status window but to always check the production news board for comprehensive information on an incident.
An instant update of the Market Status requires an enabled up-to date Java™ version within the browser.
