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Egyptian Exchange

General Information

Main Index: EGX30

Working Days:

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
From 10:00:00 AM 10:00:00 AM 10:00:00 AM 10:00:00 AM 10:00:00 AM Off Off
To 2:30:00 PM 2:30:00 PM 2:30:00 PM 2:30:00 PM 2:30:00 PM Off Off

Currencies: EGP, EGP/USD 18.65 “Average Conversion Rate Last Quarter-2017”

Working Hours: 10:00 am – 2.30 pm (Egypt – GMT+2)

Pre-Open Open Close
8.30 am 10 am 2.30 pm

No of Listed Companies: 228 Companies

Market Capital: 675 B EGP / 12622 B USD ($) “as per Latest Update in 31-5-2017”

Settlement Cycle: T+0, T+1, T+2

Most Active Stocks “3m average-2017” Biggest Weight in the Index (EGX 30)
PORT 57.9M COMI 37.70%
OTMT 55M HRHO 6.59%
AMER 46.30M GTHE 6.02%
OLFI 14.99M TMGH 5.66%
CCAP 12.46 EAST 5.00%
PHDC 11.75 SWDY 3.87%
AIND 9.25M MNHD 3.67%
GTHE 8.53M SKPC 3.27%
EGTS 7.66M ORWE 2.85%
EBSC 6.32M CIEB 2.66%

Trading

Order Types

  • Market Order
  • Limit Order
  • Limit Order (Minimum fill, All or none)
Example Investor ID 011591507674
Closing Price Average Price

Limit Up & Limit Down

5% up will be suspended for 30 minutes or 10% During the market session (10% up or 10% down (the Symbol will be suspended till the End of the Session.

Time in Force Restrictions

  • Good till day
  • Good till date
  • Good till cancel

 

Priority

  • Price – the order with the best price has the highest queue priority
  • Cross – the lowest priority is given for matching an order of the same buyer and seller broker
  • Time – at a single price level, time of entry of an order governs its priority on a First in First Out (FIFO) basi
  • Special Term – orders with the least trading restrictions will be given priority over orders with greater restrictions
  • Amend order price or quantity will loss the priority if increase the price, Increase the Quantity, or decrease the price , the only case will not loss the priority if decrease the quantity

 

General Rules

  • During pre-open 10 minutes before open of regular trading orders can’t be placed, amended or cancelled “Randomly EGX Exchange Close the Pre-Open Session 10 Minutes before Session Start Time”
  • Certain stocks have to be traded on within the same day, these stocks are reviewed every quarter (T+0 Symbol List)
  • Market Regulator is The Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority

Foreign Investor Laws

Foreign investor restrictions are applied to trades on the following symbols.

Symbol
SCEM
ABUK
SDTI
EXPA

Companies traded in USD Currency “Most Active Stocks”.

Symbol Currency
EKHO USD
NAHO USD
MOIL USD
AIVC USD
FAITA USD
EGIN USD
EGSA USD
EGBG USD
TRTO USD

Companies Listed on the OTC Market.

OTC Working Hours:

Only Two Days per Week “Monday, Wednesday”

Open Time Close Time
12 pm 12:30 pm

The companies listed in the OTC market are as follows:

  • HCFI
  • NFI
  • AICR
  • AGIN
  • NCGT
  • AMMS
  • IEEC
  • ESWE
  • SNFI
  • INGA

Note*: No limits ups and limit downs for symbols traded on the OCT Market.