Exchange Adds 5 Stock Futures and 5 Options Contracts for February Trading

The Korea Exchange announced on the 14th that it will list an additional 5 stock futures and 5 stock options on the 17th of next month.

Korea Exchange, Yeouido, Seoul. Photo by Jinhyung Kang aymsdream@

All the additional stock futures and options to be listed are securities market items.

The underlying stocks for the stock futures to be newly listed include OCI, Miwon Sangsa, APR, Hanwha Industrial Solutions, and Hyosung Heavy Industries, which were added to the KOSPI 200 index in the second half of last year.

Accordingly, the 5 stocks removed from the KOSPI 200 during the same period?KG Steel, Lotte Tour Development, Myungshin Industrial, Young Poong, and Hyosung?will be excluded from the underlying stocks for stock futures.

The underlying stocks for stock options to be additionally listed include HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, Meritz Financial Group, Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, KT&G, and Krafton.

The stocks excluded from the underlying stocks for stock options are three securities market stocks: HD Hyundai Infracore, SK IE Technology, Hotel Shilla, and two KOSDAQ market stocks: Seegene and Webzen.

The Exchange explained that with this additional listing of stock options, stock option trading will be possible for 29 out of the 30 securities market stocks by market capitalization. It also noted that stock futures and stock options whose underlying stocks are to be excluded will only be tradable until the 13th of next month, so investors should exercise caution.

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