Technical Side Of Equities Market Data Dissemination

Could you advise at what time we should be receiving the first price of the day for the BIST National 100 Index?

Borsa İstanbul Equity Data feed begins to send the Index prices when the data dissemination begins. This value is the previous day's close value for the Index. (~it is sent at ~08:50 - Istanbul time).

The Index's first value for the day is disseminated after the opening session ends, which is ~09:30 (Istanbul time).

We have query regarding the broker codes, do all the trades that are executed during the day will have broker codes updated in the file that is sent at the end of day via ftp?

The EOD file contains broker codes for both side of each trade.

Could you please confirm the number of Market Depth levels supported on the feed for Istanbul Equity Markets?

5 bid & 5 ask depth levels are supported in the Istanbul Equity Markets data feed.

Could you advise whether the Borsa İstanbul Feed for Equities supports Auction Volume data?

We do not support separate Auction volume data field, volume data is provided as cumulative not Auction based.

How can we reach the list of all securities traded on the Equity Market?

You get the the list of all securities available in the next session at page

Click for theBulletin Data

The name of the file is: www.borsaistanbul.com/data/thm/YYYY/AA/thmYYYYAAGGS.zip

YYYY-> Year, AA->Month, GG-> Day, S-> SessionNo

What is the difference between the file: Price margin and adjusted price margin?

Price margins are produced at the end of each session and determine the base price valid for the next session.

In order to access price margin files produced at session end:

Gun (day): required date (two digits)

Songun (last date): last digit of the required date

Ay (month) : month section of the date (two digits)

Seans (session): 1 or 2

www.borsaistanbul.com/erd/songun/emirler/maseans_gunay.csv

Example:

Price margin file valid for the first session on March 25, 2014

www.borsaistanbul.com/erd/5/emirler/ma1_2503.csv

Price margin file valid for the second session on March 25, 2014

www.borsaistanbul.com/erd/5/emirler/ma2_2503.csv

Adjusted prices are the prices calculated and released when there are corporate actions.

In order to access adjusted price margin files:

Gun (day): required date (two digits)

Songun (last date): last digit of the required date

Ay (month): month section of the date (two digits)

www.borsaistanbul.com/erd/songun/emirler/hmekgunay.csv

Example:

Adjusted price margin file valid for March 24, 2014 (“Hisse Marj-Düzeltilmiş Fiyat Tablosu”).

www.borsaistanbul.com/erd/4/emirler/hmek2403.csv

Is there any way, from the website, to get prices of listed equities?

Please check daily bulletins on the link below for further information.

Click for theBulletin Data

What is the difference between Old Market (E) and New Market (Y)? And what is the difference between BE ‘Primary Market Old’ and BY ‘Primary Market New’?

Currently, the old-new difference is not applied.

Do you have a message Type Z to calculate the change from previous trading day/session and its detail please?

In the Equity Message, following fields shows the changes

X Percentage change for previous session close price
O Net change for previous session close price
Regarding Trading Status on Equities we will use the Message Type =B; unfortunately, there are indication of an pre-opening phase (I think this corresponds to what you name ‘Call Phase’,...

...phase during which orders can be entered, updated and cancelled), Price Determination Phase. How could we determine them?

There is no specific message to indicate start and end of pre-opening phase.

We do not understand to which market corresponds the Single Price Auction. Would you mind explain us please?

Single Price Auction does not correspond to a specific market. Single Price is stock-based trading method. You could find more information about Single Price Method at

Single Price

What is the flow of communication of Equity Market?
Beginning Of The Trading Day The DDS begins sending messages at 08:50 on every trading day. Firstly, previous closing prices, upper and lower limits valid for the following session, equities to be listed or de-listed in the following session, if any, will be transmitted to the vendors by using the above mentioned message types.
Intraday / During The Trading Sessions As of the date this document was prepared, trading hours for the Watch List Market are 14:00 to 17:40, and for the 1st National, 2nd National, New Companies, Institutional Financial Products and Developing Companies Markets 09:15 to 12:30 and 14:00 to 17:40.
In Between Two Trading Sessions There is no data disseminating from 12:45 to 13:15 (Break time between two sessions may vary according to the internal operational procedures). Closing prices of the first trading session are sent immediately after the trading session closes.
End Of The Trading Day The DDS stops sending messages for the day at 17:55.
Does your feed contains such message type to help us to identify the nature of an instrument, meaning is it an equity, index, warrant (on equity, on bills…), bond, ETF, …?

To understand the type of an instrument you need to check the SERIES_CODE in Equity Market defined in the message formats document. Here is the list of series codes;

SERIES
E Old Market (Stock)
Y New Market (Stock)
BE Primary Market – Old (“E”) series stocks
BY Primary Market – New (“Y”) series stocks
BF Primary Market – ETF (“F”) series stocks
R Rights Coupon Market
F Exchange Traded Funds
V Warrants Market
C Certificate Market
How can find the trading methods of the warrants and certificates?

Click for theTrading Principles

Click for theCertificates

In Message Type=G, do the 3 different types of transaction can update the high and low of the session?

No, odd lot trades and special order trades are not included in Best-Bid-Offer price calculations.

Special Order Trade: what is this kind of trade?

You can find more information on this at

Click for theOrder Types

Is there Off-book trade on your Stock Exchange?

Yes there is, but it is not disseminated from Data Dissemination System

In Message Type=V, when this message is received, and when the reset occurs?

The information for this message is updated and sends after each index calculation (10 seconds interval). The reset occurs at the beginning of trading sessions.

Total Traded Value: does it correspond to the turnover? How do you calculate it?

Yes, it is calculated as the sum of total turnover (trade price * trade quantity) for all trades during the session.

Message Type=O, do they corresponds to Block Trade?

No, you can find more information on special orders at

Click for theOrder Types

Can Message Type=O trades updates the session high, low, open and close prices & quantity?

No, special order trades are not included in Best-Bid-Offer price calculations.

Message_Type=Q, are they the same as the Message Type D?

No, the “Q” message type contains market maker’s quotation information. However, “D” message contains information on total volume (quantity) and total number of orders for the pending buy and sell orders grouping by order price.

Can the order book by limit be crossed if we send both Message Type Q and D?

No, it is not crossed.

Message_Type=T, when this message will be send? Only weekends?

Beginning and ending of the testing periods are announced to the vendors using this message type.