Weekly Stock Option introduction
Launch Date: 4 November 2024 Monday
Product Offering: 10 selected single stock classes
- HSBC Holdings Plc. (5)
- Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (388)
- Tencent Holdings Limited (700)
- Kuaishou Technology (1024)
- BYD Company Limited (1211)
- Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. (2318)
- Meituan (3690)
- JD.com, Inc. (9618)
- Baidu, Inc. (9888)
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (9988)
Trading and Expiry:
Weekly options will be available for trading from Monday and expire on the following week’s Friday. If Friday is a public holiday, the expiry will occur on the preceding business day.
Contracts will be listed for both the current week (spot week) and the next week, with no overlaps on expiry days with monthly contracts.
Contract Codes:
Contract Code Example |
HEX380.00H4W23 |
HEX |
HKATS underlying code (HKEX in example) |
380 |
The contract’s strike price (HK$380.0 in example) |
H |
The option contract month code (call option in August in example) |
4 |
The contract year (4 indicates 2024 in example) |
W |
Indicates a weekly contract |
23 |
The date of expiry (23rd day of August 2024 in example) |