April 27, 2018

The Toronto Schlock Exchange provided some entertainment today:

UPDATE 4 – TMX has decided to shut down all markets for the remainder of the day. Trading will not resume today, including market on close. We apologize for the inconvenience. Further updates will be provided.

UPDATE 3 – Please be aware that all TMX markets continue to experience issues. We apologize for the inconvenience. Further updates will be provided.

UPDATE 2 – Please be aware that TMX continues to experience issues on all markets. We apologize for the inconvenience. Further updates will be provided.

I can’t find the original notice or “Update 1” on their site, but they did have notices on Twitter:

UPDATE – All TMX markets, including Montreal Exchange, are experiencing issues with trading, all users are equally impacted and are unable to connect to our Exchanges. We apologize for the inconvenience and continue to investigate. Further updates will be provided.
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Please be aware that TMX equity markets are experiencing issues with trading, all users are equally impacted and are unable to connect to our Exchanges. We apologize for the inconvenience and continue to investigate. Further updates will be provided.

There’s no real explanation been put forward as to why this happened. Maybe somebody unexpectedly traded a marijuana stock. Perhaps they forgot to pay the electric bill. Or maybe – given the season – somebody did spring cleaning:

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One way or another, I am advised that the Historical Prices service – where I get the closing quotes – will not be ready for several hours. So I’ll update this post with the statistics tomorrow.

Update, 2018-4-28: The Exchange has released some details. It appears their redundancy wasn’t quite as redundant as one might hope! But don’t worry, Exchange fans! I’m sure they’re still the regulators’ darlings!

TMX Group today provided further details regarding the market interruption that affected trading on Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV), TSX Alpha Exchange (TSX Alpha) and Montreal Exchange (MX), on Friday, April 27.

The outage, which began at 1:37:25 pm EDT Friday on MX and 1:39:13 pm EDT on TSX, TSXV, and TSX Alpha, was caused by a hardware failure in a central storage appliance of the trading system. This hardware failure impacted both the primary and the redundant components preventing storage failover procedures from engaging. TMX confirms that this incident was not the result of a cybersecurity attack.

TMX began remediation measures Friday afternoon, which included replacing the defective storage module, verifying the integrity of data of all impacted databases and conducting a successful start-up validation of the entire trading enterprise. Given the time of the incident, we could not engage disaster recovery systems in time to ensure an orderly market re-open and closing session.

TMX confirms that all systems are ready for the start of business on Monday, April 30, 2018.

“We apologize to all of our valued clients across Canada’s capital markets and around the world, and to all of TMX Group’s stakeholders for Friday’s interruption in trading,” said Lou Eccleston, Chief Executive Officer of TMX Group. “Our team took immediate action to diagnose the problem and communicate with all of our participants while determining the cause and impacts. Due to the timing and the nature of the issue, we made the difficult but necessary decision to shut down trading for the rest of the day. TMX is committed to applying the lessons learned from this incident to help us prevent such issues from recurring in the future.”

Update, 2018-4-28:

HIMIPref™ Preferred Indices
These values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ Indices

Values are provisional and are finalized monthly
Index Mean
Current
Yield
(at bid)
Median
YTW
Median
Average
Trading
Value
Median
Mod Dur
(YTW)
Issues Day’s Perf. Index Value
Ratchet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 1.2185 % 2,925.1
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 1.2185 % 5,367.4
Floater 3.42 % 3.67 % 89,971 18.14 4 1.2185 % 3,093.3
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.2065 % 3,155.2
SplitShare 4.61 % 4.68 % 75,317 5.07 5 0.2065 % 3,768.0
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.2065 % 2,939.9
Perpetual-Premium 5.57 % -2.43 % 78,127 0.09 11 0.1404 % 2,868.6
Perpetual-Discount 5.41 % 5.43 % 68,263 14.77 24 0.0879 % 2,937.7
FixedReset 4.32 % 4.79 % 162,930 5.71 104 0.1862 % 2,511.3
Deemed-Retractible 5.15 % 5.62 % 86,558 5.63 28 0.1749 % 2,941.5
FloatingReset 3.07 % 3.25 % 33,635 3.56 11 0.2261 % 2,759.5
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
BAM.PR.B Floater 1.04 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 16.59
Evaluated at bid price : 16.59
Bid-YTW : 3.67 %
TD.PF.F Perpetual-Discount 1.16 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 23.97
Evaluated at bid price : 24.39
Bid-YTW : 5.03 %
BAM.PR.K Floater 1.41 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 16.57
Evaluated at bid price : 16.57
Bid-YTW : 3.67 %
PWF.PR.Q FloatingReset 1.54 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 21.15
Evaluated at bid price : 21.15
Bid-YTW : 3.29 %
PWF.PR.A Floater 1.55 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 20.90
Evaluated at bid price : 20.90
Bid-YTW : 2.88 %
BAM.PR.X FixedReset 3.57 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 17.99
Evaluated at bid price : 17.99
Bid-YTW : 5.17 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
TD.PF.G FixedReset 83,000 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-04-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.30
Bid-YTW : 3.66 %
BAM.PR.X FixedReset 82,210 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 17.99
Evaluated at bid price : 17.99
Bid-YTW : 5.17 %
TD.PF.J FixedReset 71,084 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2023-04-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.27
Bid-YTW : 4.60 %
TRP.PR.J FixedReset 69,500 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-05-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.37
Bid-YTW : 3.92 %
BNS.PR.G FixedReset 61,315 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2021-07-25
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.31
Bid-YTW : 3.79 %
BAM.PR.Z FixedReset 60,600 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 22.93
Evaluated at bid price : 24.30
Bid-YTW : 5.13 %
There were 14 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
BMO.PR.T FixedReset Quote: 22.79 – 23.07
Spot Rate : 0.2800
Average : 0.1718

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 22.37
Evaluated at bid price : 22.79
Bid-YTW : 4.85 %

BAM.PR.C Floater Quote: 16.55 – 16.85
Spot Rate : 0.3000
Average : 0.1938

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 16.55
Evaluated at bid price : 16.55
Bid-YTW : 3.67 %

BNS.PR.A FloatingReset Quote: 24.99 – 25.25
Spot Rate : 0.2600
Average : 0.1674

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2022-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 24.99
Bid-YTW : 3.25 %

BAM.PR.K Floater Quote: 16.57 – 16.81
Spot Rate : 0.2400
Average : 0.1645

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 16.57
Evaluated at bid price : 16.57
Bid-YTW : 3.67 %

TRP.PR.H FloatingReset Quote: 16.45 – 16.75
Spot Rate : 0.3000
Average : 0.2333

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 16.45
Evaluated at bid price : 16.45
Bid-YTW : 3.78 %

BMO.PR.Z Perpetual-Discount Quote: 24.79 – 24.95
Spot Rate : 0.1600
Average : 0.1237

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-04-27
Maturity Price : 24.33
Evaluated at bid price : 24.79
Bid-YTW : 5.10 %

2 Responses to “April 27, 2018”

  1. BarleyandHops says:

    was caused by a hardware failure in a central storage appliance of the trading system. This hardware failure impacted both the primary and the redundant components preventing storage failover procedures from engaging

    I cant help but to hear in my head as a reply from Scotty (aka Captain Montgomery Scott)

  2. jiHymas says:

    Stop tradin’ those marijuana stocks, cap’n! The Exchange canna take it!

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