May 9, 2022Technical Notice 22-006

2022 Protocol Upgrade

Montreal Exchange will upgrade Order Entry, Data Dissemination and Drop Copy Protocols on Monday, November 14th, 2022.

Summary of Protocol Upgrade Features

Feature Description

SAIL

B3

FIX

F1

HSVF

D7

OBF

A3

SAIL DC

B3

Fix DC

F1

Covered Trade Functionality
  • More intuitive trading of Delta Neutral Strategies involving Futures Options and their Underlying
  • Functionality also permits the covering of Futures with Futures
x x x x
Market Order
  • Additional Market Order Type
  • Chases to an Exchange defined Limit, per Instrument Group
  • Existing Market One Price remains
x x x
Microsecond Timestamps
  • Timestamps reported in Front Ends and Data Dissemination will represent the time at which an Order's queue position is determined
  • Due to to the fact that there are multiple trading engines, Timestamps may appear to be out of sequence if comparing messages from different instrument groups
x x x x
Intent to Cross Flag
  • Front End Order and Trade messages
  • Flag set on Orders that are meant for a pre-negotiated trade
  • MXR Circular
    • https://www.m-x.ca/f_circulaires_en/052-22_en.pdf
x x x x
Maker/Taker information
  • Front End Trade confirmation messages
  • Maker will represent the resting order
  • Taker will represent the incoming order
x x x
Order Handling Instructions
  • FIA Initiative
  • Front End Order and Trade messages
  • To easily reference the appropriate brokerage rate for the execution method
  • Not available in Clearing Feeds as of Release Date
x x x x
Throttling Notification
  • Front End notifications for message throttling start and end
x x
Business Date
  • Front End and Data Dissemination Trade messages will contain the applicable Business Date
x x x x x x
Bond Futures Deliverables
  • New Data Dissemination message
  • Deliverable GoC Bonds per Bond Future Expiry
x x
Last Trading Date
  • Instrument Dictionary
  • Calendar Date and Time as of which an Instrument can no longer trade
x x
Strategies with Implied Pricing
  • Instrument Dictionary
  • OBF only, already present in HSVF
x
HSVF Sequence Number Capacity
  • Maximum Sequence Number increased to 9,999,999,999
  • Limit is 999,999,999 for D5 and D6 Versions
x

 

Protocol Upgrade Timeline

 

Protocol Version GTE Business Date Prod Protocol Activation Business Date (SOD)
SAIL B3 Thursday, August 18th, 2022 Monday, November 14th, 2022
FIX F1
HSVF D7
OBF A3
SAIL DC B3
FIX DC F1

 

Protocol Specifications Access in www.tmxwebstore.com May 9th, 2022

Protocol Decommission Schedule

 

Protocol Version Decommission Date (EOD)
HSVF D5 Friday, February 24th, 2023
OBF A1

Please click here to obtain the file detailing all protocol changes.

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