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Attractive Trading Segments With Outstanding Liquidity
For both buy-side and sell-side, the Swiss Stock Exchange is the premier venue for trading Swiss securities. It offers comprehensive access to over 60,000 securities, across a variety of trading segments including Equities, Bonds, Exchange Traded Funds, Mutual Funds and Sponsored Funds, Exchange Traded Products and Structured Products.
As the reference market with the highest market share of daily trading in Swiss securities, we offer unparalleled liquidity and the tightest bid/ask spreads. The quality of our order books is second to none. Whether you’re looking for the fastest or the safest execution, the best prices or the highest liquidity: the Swiss Stock Exchange combines it all.
The Swiss Stock Exchange is the reference market for Swiss shares, covering over 250 stocks including blue chips Nestle, Roche and Novartis.
Ensure best execution with our innovative non-displayed liquidity pool enabling midpoint execution on Swiss equity instruments.
Best execution in Swiss Shares made easy.
Our bond market offers access to over 1,800 instruments issued by organizations the world over.
The Swiss Stock Exchange was one of the first in Europe to launch its ETF segment. Twenty years later we offer investors more choice than ever to diversify their portfolio.
The Swiss Stock Exchange offeres a diverse and innovative range of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), including the world’s first on crypto-currencies and baskets.
Trade mutual and real estate funds as easily as shares on the Swiss Stock Exchange through the Sponsored and Investment Funds segments.
Sophisticated, electronic trading of over 49,000 structured products with a focus on transparency and efficiency.
Trade foreign and international shares directly on the Swiss Stock Exchange.
SIX Swiss Exchange publishes its monthly “B1G Numbers” to provide the market and wider public with information on the trading and listing activity. This includes the development of trading volumes, the number of trades and the performance our blue chip index SMI, among other highlights. The B1G Numbers are presented by André Buck, Head Debt Capital Markets.
Every day, the stock exchange produces many numbers – we tell you which ones really count.
André Buck, Head Debt Capital Market, Exchanges
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A transparent and efficient price formation process in a stable and controlled environment: these are the cornerstones of trading safely on a regulated market like the Swiss Stock Exchange.
At the Swiss Stock Exchange, you can rely on regulated and secure trading. We ensure transparent, efficient and liquid trading with the objective of treating everybody equally and protecting investors.
In addition, we provide you with the latest market data and comprehensive statistics for our entire securities universe, including order book information, prices, volumes and turnover figures.
We run one of the most advanced and stable trading platforms in the world. Whether it's speed or capacity you're looking for, we offer you the perfect balance between both. Coupled with our superior liquidity, this empowers you as a participant, trader and investor to flexibly respond to market developments and implement instant investment decisions. The result is excellently executed investment strategies and effectively managed risks.
Sunrise’s listing on SIX Swiss Exchange marks another milestone for the exchange, supporting the recovery of the Equity Primary Market in Europe .
Today, Sunrise Communications AG (“Sunrise”), a Liberty Global spin-off, listed its Class A shares under the ticker symbol “SUNN” at SIX Swiss Exchange.
André Buck, Head Debt Capital Market, and Ueli Goldener, Head Fixed Income Switzerland, share insights about the new monthly Fixed Income Market Report which provides detailed statistics about the CHF bond market on SIX Swiss Exchange.
The new data driven research feature of SIX Swiss Exchange looks at the contributions of different types of trade clusters to market share, liquidity and execution performance dynamics, and their usefulness for passive order allocation strategies.
Watch the new “B1G Numbers” video and get first-hand information about the trading and listing activity in the past month on the Swiss stock exchange.
Today, SIX welcomes abrdn Investments as its latest issuer of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) with their new real estate product. This addition brings the total number of ETF at SIX Swiss Exchange to 1,845 across 28 issuers.
The Swiss stock exchange offers outstanding liquidity across a wide range of attractive trading segments.
SwissAtMid is a service that offers all our participants best execution possibilities on all Swiss equities with price improvement over visible pricing on the exchange. Integrate this strong source of non-displayed liquidity in Swiss instruments to ensure the best possible outcome for your clients.
Trading-At-Last (TAL) is a new trading session for Swiss listed equities that commences after the closing auction and allows participants to buy and sell shares at the official closing price on the Swiss Stock Exchange.
For issuers of ETFs and ETPs, the Swiss stock exchange is an attractive growth market. SIX provides access to assets of a highly capitalized international investor base that are managed in Switzerland.
The diverse and comprehensive family of passive financial products available on SIX offers a solution for all investment needs.
In our Sponsored Funds segment, investors are always kept in the picture: our high levels of transparency, continuous pricing by market makers and instant order execution in fund trading allow you to react even faster to market developments and to know immediately which price you achieved.
In a difficult macroeconomic environment, SIX Swiss Exchange ensured stable trading and efficient capital raising. Trading activity remained close to last year’s levels while the Swiss Market Index SMI® declined by 16.7%. Facilitating capital raising with new offerings, SIX Swiss Exchange recorded fourteen company listings, including its first ever Sparks and nine GDRs listings. In addition, nine new product issuers and six trading participants joined in 2022.
As volatility dropped to levels below the extraordinary peaks of the previous year, trading activity on SIX Swiss Exchange also stabilized in 2021. New all-time highs were reached by the Swiss Market Index SMI®, ending 20.3% higher than in the previous year. Facilitating capital raising with new offerings, SIX Swiss Exchange recorded five IPOs – including its first ever SPAC listing – while twelve new product issuers and three trading participants joined this year.
In a globally challenging environment, various extraordinary events led to persistently high market volatility in 2020. Despite the turbulent market developments, the record-high volumes were managed by SIX without any problems. Multiple high-profile product issuers and trading participants joined the Swiss Stock Exchange, while two new company listings could be noted.
SIX key trading figures: 2019
The Trading InfoSnack articles are a series of data driven, mini-research features that provide commentary on market relevant trends, models and microstructure that influence the trading of Swiss securities. They are designed to be brief but insightful summaries of relevant trading topics, underpinned by in depth analysis compiled by the Swiss Stock Exchange’s Equities team. Subscribe here and never miss an issue.
Article #14 of the data driven research features of SIX Swiss Exchange looks at the contributions of different trade clusters to market share and their usefulness for passive order allocation strategies.
Article #13 of the data driven research features of SIX Swiss Exchange looks at the sourcing of mid-point liquidity as a key facet of equity market trading in Europe.
Article #12 of the data driven research features of SIX Swiss Exchange looks at order cancellations as a key driver of the order book shape, analysing not just the Swiss market but across the most liquid European equities.
Order books are in a constant state of evolution, one that determines likelihood of execution and execution performance. In-depth analysis by the Equity experts of SIX Swiss Exchange highlight the trade-off between fill probability and adverse selection utilising Order Book Imbalance (OBI) state and a Crumbling Quote Signal (CQS).
Any trading participant executing client orders is obliged to do so in a way that achieves the best possible outcome for the client. Read about the core factors that they take into consideration when routing orders in the latest Trading InfoSnack.
Dark trading mechanisms have become an integral part of the European liquidity landscape. In this context, the PBBO midpoint is a core benchmark. In the latest Trading InfoSnack, the equity experts at SIX Swiss Exchange are evaluating what proportion of trading activity actually occurs at this price and the impact of trading at a ‘stale price’.
Article #8 of the data driven research features that provide commentary on market relevant trends, models and microstructure that influence the trading of Swiss securities.
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The Swiss Stock Exchange publishes the Crypto Products Report on a monthly basis as well as the yearly report once a year. The report provides detailed figures about the development of the crypto products as well as information on trading activity, trends and changes in this segment to investors, market participants and the interested public. All reports are available here.