RUSSIA: MOEX Plans to Increase Trading Hours on Stock Market

Thursday August 7 2025

On 6^th August 2025, Moscow Exchange (MOEX) announced that it plans to introduce several technological innovations on the stock market at the end of September; they are already available for testing.

The morning trading session on the debt market will start at 06:50 (currently at 08:50). This will unify the start of trading on the stock and bond markets and increase the convenience of traders and their clients. Currently, the morning trading session on the stock market is held from 6:50 to 9:50, on the bond market – from 8:50 to 9:50. Evening trading on the stock market is held from 19:00 to 23:50. Investors can make deals with shares 17 hours a day, with bonds – 15 hours.

The opening auction for the evening session is planned to be cancelled on the stock and bond market. The evening session will start immediately with the trading period and will be held from 19:00 to 23:50.

In addition, a new type of order “at average limit” will be available for stock market instruments – WLIM order. Unlike a regular limit order, which is executed strictly no worse than the specified price (absolute limit), for the new type of order it is possible to execute at a price worse than the price specified in the order, but the weighted average price of transactions will not be worse than the price specified in the WLIM order. In the limit order entry form, a choice between absolute (default) and average price limit will be added. WLIM order expands the possibilities of executing a limit order at the desired price. The WLIM order will have the same pricing as a regular limit order.

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