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Tokyo Commodity Exchange Resuming Bait Order Generation Related To Standard Combination Order (SCO)

Date 20/07/2009

As previously announced on June 29 (2009 TOCOM Notice No.140) and on July 10 (2009 TOCOM Notice No. 153), TOCOM has been suspending the generation of bait orders from Tuesday, June 30, since the problem related to bait orders occurred, and has been conducting verification tests on the patched program.

Through the verification tests, the Exchange was able to confirm that the problem has been resolved, and, accordingly, decided to resume the generation of bait orders from Tuesday, July 21.

Please immediately notify any relevant party, including your customers, of this matter.

Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience caused by the suspension of bait orders related to SCO.