18.04.2014 15:46
Reasons for trading suspension on 17 April, measures to resume it
On 17 April, an error occurred in the core of the Derivatives Market"s trading system during the evening session at 9:29 pm MSK, resulting in the suspension of trading. The error occurred while processing a service transaction updating cash limits. To resume trading, exchange staff rebooted and conducted pre-launch testing of the trading system"s core. The system was open for order cancellation from 10:30 pm MSK, trading was resumed at 11:00 pm MSK, and proceeded to the close normally.
As a precaution measure, Exchange operators enabled additional logging of certain operations in the system.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
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