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Technology
BM&FBOVESPA has advanced technological resources in order to provide service in an efficient and secure manner to investors. Most bid and ask orders are processed electronically, allowing a better price formation and transparency in exchange transactions. An open outcry trading floor is available for the derivatives market (futures and commodities).

 

 

Investors also have the option of placing orders online, via the internet, have access to quotes and follow up on the Exchange’s different markets. The Exchange’s principal systems are:

Mega Bolsa
High performance electronic platform: 99.5% of orders sent to the system take less than 0.62 seconds to be processed.

GTS – Global Trading System
Using the most modern capacity and order processing requirements, the GTS has advanced connectivity solutions, developed based on the FIX protocol, the current standard for electronic communications, executing 250 transactions per second.

Home Broker
A system that allows the investor to send orders, through a brokerage house, directly to Mega Bolsa. It was created to facilitate and speed up the trading process, thus attracting more individual investors to the stock market.

WebTrading
Mini futures contracts trading system via the internet. Investors can place orders directly in real time, through communications software installed in the brokerage house.