Shares and other investment instruments can only be bought/sold through members of the Exchange who are authorised to enter into Exchange trades. The terms and conditions for participation in exchange trades are governed by the Membership Rules and the Trading Rules. This means that an investor must have an investment account either directly with a member of the Exchange or with a securities dealer (OCP) that cooperates with a member of the Exchange. A list of the Exchange's members is published on the BSE website.

Trading on the BSE takes place on weekdays from Monday to Friday. It is not traded on weekends, public holidays and the last day of the year. The list of non-trading days is set out in the calendar of trading days published on the BSE's website.

All markets on the BSE are traded from 8:00 to 16:30. A detailed schedule of the trading day is published on the BCPP website. The results of the trading day are published in the official price list at 17:15.

During trading, all buy and sell orders are collected in the order book in the XETRA T7® electronic system operated by Deutsche Börse AG.

Only exchange members have real-time access to the order book. During trading hours, the exchange website displays prices and closed trades for each stock with a 15-minute delay. It also displays a section of the unpaired order entries where only the first five highest prices for sell bids and the first five lowest prices for buy bids are published.

Each company has an investor section on its website where all important information and documents for investors are published. Information about individual companies and their shares or other investment instruments traded on the BSE can also be found on the Exchange's website, in the Current Data section.

The shares are divided by individual markets, where each issue has its own component. Here you can find current trading data, an overview of historical data or company information, including the most important documents that companies send as part of their disclosure obligations to investors. Start Market companies also publish their annual financial statements and investors can download them in an editable XLSX format.

Information about the new subscriptions can be found on the Exchange's website, on social media and in various media. You can also contact your trader who will give you information on whether you can participate in the public subscription. The relevant company will also announce its IPO, as this is one of its biggest milestones.

Various reports and historical data are available on the Exchange's website in the Quotations and Statistics section. For example, here you can look up aggregate trading volumes, market capitalizations of equity issues or key annual data for the last ten years.

The PX index is the official price index of the BSE and the PX-TR index is the official dividend index of the BSE, taking into account the gross (i.e. tax-free) dividend payment in its calculation. The Exchange also calculates the PX-TRnet index, which takes into account the amount of the dividend payment less income tax in its calculation. Only actively traded blue chip equity issues are included in the PX index group. The eligibility criteria, index calculation and other information are set out in the PX, PX-TR and PX-TRnet Index Calculation Rules.

Furthermore, the BCPP calculates the PX-GLOB index, which is a price index that does not take into account any dividend yields. As a rule, in the index base, the BCPP includes all share issues admitted to trading on the Prime Market and Standard Market. The eligibility criteria, index calculation and other information are set out in the PX-GLOB Index Calculation Rules.

Issues admitted to trading on the Start Market are included in the PX-START index base. This is a dividend index that takes into account gross (i.e. tax-free) dividend payments in its calculation. The eligibility criteria, index calculation and other information are set out in the PX-START Market Index Calculation Rules.

Further information can be found on the Exchange's website, in the Indices section.

The Central Securities Depository, a.s. (CDCP), a subsidiary of the BSE and part of the PX Group, is responsible for keeping records of book-entry securities and settling exchange and over-the-counter transactions in investment instruments. More information can be found on the CDCP website.

Yes, trading fees should be discussed with the trader who will be brokering the trades for you. The fee policy is certainly one of the criteria that should be considered when choosing a trader.