The Intraday Continuous Market is a local continuous price matching market, allowing Exchange Members an additional route to market and adjust their physical positions closer to real time.

How it works

The Intraday Continuous Market operates 365 days a year. Trading on the Continuous Market platform takes place on a Trading Day basis (23:00 to 23:00),  consisting of 48 half hourly Trading Periods.

The Order Book for the Intraday Continuous Market, for a given Trading Day, opens the day before the Trading Day at 11:45. The Order Book closes on a rolling basis one hour before the start of the relevant Trading Period.

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Currency

The Intraday Continuous Market operates on a single currency platform, all trading takes place in Euro.

Products

SEMOpx offers both Simple and Block Orders products allowing members flexible trading options on the continuous market platform. A Simple Order is a bid to buy or an offer to sell for a half hour Trading Period. A Block Order is a bid to buy or an offer to sell for a two, four, eight or 24 hour duration.

Order conditions

The following conditions can be applied to Simple Orders or Block Order within the Intraday Continuous Market timeframe:

  • Immediate or Cancel (IOC)
  • Fill or Kill (FOK)
  • Good Till Date (GTD)
  • Good for Session  (GFS)
  • Iceberg (IBG)

Block order types

Click below to view the 22 pre-defined Block Order types that are available to trade on the Intraday Continuous Market.

PeriodsBlock Order Name Block Order Description
1-48SEMOpx_Baseload24 hour block covering 23:00 to 23:00
1-16SEMOpx_23-078 hour block covering 23:00 to 07:00
17-32SEMOpx_07-158 hour block covering 07:00 to 15:00
33-48SEMOpx_15-238 hour block covering 15:00 to 23:00
1-8SEMOpx_23-034 hour block covering 23:00 to 03:00
9-16SEMOpx_03-074 hour block covering 03:00 to 07:00
17-24SEMOpx_07-114 hour block covering 07:00 to 11:00
25-32SEMOpx_11-154 hour block covering 11:00 to 15:00
33-40SEMOpx_15-194 hour block covering 15:00 to 19:00
41-48SEMOpx_19-234 hour block covering 19:00 to 23:00
1-4SEMOpx_23-012 hour block covering 23:00 to 01:00
5-8SEMOpx_01-032 hour block covering 01:00 to 03:00
9-12SEMOpx_03-052 hour block covering 03:00 to 05:00
13-16SEMOpx_05-072 hour block covering 05:00 to 07:00
17-20SEMOpx_07-092 hour block covering 07:00 to 09:00
21-24SEMOpx_09-112 hour block covering 09:00 to 11:00
25-28SEMOpx_11-132 hour block covering 11:00 to 13:00
29-32SEMOpx_13-152 hour block covering 13:00 to 15:00
33-36SEMOpx_15-172 hour block covering 15:00 to 17:00
37-40SEMOpx_17-192 hour block covering 17:00 to 19:00
41-44SEMOpx_19-212 hour block covering 19:00 to 21:00
45-48SEMOpx_21-232 hour block covering 21:00 to 23:00

Further information

For more information on trading on the Intraday Continuous Market, please download our Operating Procedures.