Minutes before the start of today's trade session on BSE there were a total of 6,759 orders were placed.

3,080 (45.57%) of them have been submitted via COBOS and 3,679 (54.43%) through the trading system. The number of orders via COBOS has decreased dramatically since the introduction of the new trading platform XETRA.

Their number may increase in the following hours, as investors are placing their bids/asks for the day.

Xetra allows investors to place an active order for a period of up to 90 days. This can be done using the calendar option when submitting the order.

Other new features are the options IOC (immediate or cancel) and FOK (fill or koll), which can be found in the ExR field.

Last month COBOS clients made 22,538 transaction on BSE, while just 4,362 were made via the trading system.

At the end of May there were a total of 5,681 COBOS issued certificates. Karoll has the most COBOS clients (1,332) followed by Elana Trading, BenchMark Finance, Ug Market and Capman. 17 new certificates were issued in May.

The year-to-date turnover of 10 investment intermediaries tops 100 mln leva (51.1 mln euros). Investbank and Eurobank EFG Bulgaria are the leaders among intermediaries with turnovers of respectively 345.8 mln (176.8 mln euros) and 296.19 mln leva (151 mln euros) respectively.

Unicredit Bulbank is third with 262 mln leva (133.9 mln euros).