Price Monitoring of Dhaka Stock Exchange

24/02/2013 16:31

On line Surveillance:

For detecting potential market abuses at a nascent stage to reduce ability of the market participants to unduly influence the price & volume of the scripts traded at DSE by accessing into orders & trades of members.

Off-Line Surveillance: Monitoring of

  • High/Low difference in prices.
  • Percentage change in prices over a week/fortnight/month.
  • Top N scrip by Turnover a week/Fortnight/month.
  • Trading in infrequently traded scrip.
  • Scrip’s hitting new high/low price, etc.

Investigations:

Conducting in-depth investigations based preliminary enquiries/analysis of trading of the scrip. In Case of irregularities observed, necessary actions are initiated or investigation case is forwarded to SEC through the CEO, if necessary.

Surveillance Actions:

  • Warning to member – verbal/written to members through the CEO are issued when market irregularities in the scrip are suspected
  • Impositions of penalty/suspension – penalize or suspend the members through the CEO who are involved in market irregularities, based on the input/evidence available from investigation report.

Rumor verification:

  • Liaising with Compliance Officers of companies to obtain comments of the company on various price sensitive corporate news items appearing in selected News Papers.
  • Comments received from the companies are disseminated to the market by way of online news bulletin.
  • Investigations based on rumor verifications are carried out, if required, to detect cases of suspected insider trading