SwissAtMid: Discover Our Block Orders

With the introduction of Block orders in December 2021, SIX Swiss Exchange enhances its block trading capabilities in SwissAtMid with the added benefit of offering interaction with existing unique liquidity: a meaningful segment of this liquidity is not available for interaction with on any other dark conditional venue. This combined with latency efficiencies embedded within the solution design of the Swiss stock exchange, means market participants benefit to secure block liquidity that they won’t find on other venues.

The new Block order type available in SwissAtMid comes in two variants: indicative (conditional) and binding (firm), with order entry and executions required to be at or above a Minimum Block Order Value Threshold (Large In Scale) that is pre-defined per security. Conditional orders enable counterparties, either on one or both sides of a match, to ‘firm up’ prior to trade execution, which mitigates their risk of overfill when working a large block order.

The following clips introduce the SwissAtMid Block order and the corresponding Trading User Interface. Further details are available in the SMR10 Release Guide.

With a single order, you can access both pools in multiple ways. Limit Plus is a completely unique order that lets you place your resting orders in both books simultaneously. This makes them fully visible in the lit book, but also fully available for execution in SwissAtMid.

The enhanced version of our iceberg order, the Iceberg Plus, allows you to take advantage of the deep pool of liquidity available in SwissAtMid. You’ll be able to interact with passive Iceberg Plus orders on the opposite end of the order book, crossing at mid-point.