Chittagong Stock Exchange has organized a training program on “Internet Trading Service” for the investors in Chittagong to aware the investors of CSE’s new Internet Trading Application called CHITRA featuring comprehensive trading and market monitoring platform.
CSE’s Internet Trading Application CHITRA offers real time streaming quotes with simple and user friendly interface for all type of users. It provides the liberty to trade hassle-free from anywhere of the world.
CSE’s Training and Awareness Department Head, Mr. AKM Shahroze Alam while inaugurating the series of training which will organize across the country gradually said that, “”Through this software investors can watch the details about indices of CSE, market news, market movers, overview of statistics, graphs and related information of stock market.” He said that, “CSE has launched these two Smartphone applications CHITRA & CSE Cloud in July 2015. Up to January 2016, approximately 2200 download of CHITRA & 1200 download of CSE Cloud from Google play store. Approximate 1000 logins from CHITRA are traced from CSE IT and around 400 Smartphone base users’ turnovers are included with ITS turnover.”
He further added that, “CSE after the introduction of automated trading system in Bangladesh in 1998, CSE was also the first bourse to introduce Internet Trading services in this country. CSE introduced Internet Trading System on 30th May 2004. The internet Trading System of CSE is a real online Internet based trading application which is directly integrated with the main trading engine.”
This application supports Multiple Brokers, supports direct Dealer Access. It provides online cash, margin and back office reports to both Dealer and investors, the further said.
Around 24,575 ITS accounts are active investors in CSE. Total turnover of ITS in 2015 was Tk.4,619,946,138 and monthly average of Tk. 384,995,511 and daily average of Tk. 18,934,205. In January 2016, 61 TREC holders’ total turnover in ITS was Tk. 619,587,346, Mr. Alam said.
A total 50 investors attended the training program. Mr. Kanan Barua, Head of Network and Website Management and his team briefed the investors about the ITS features.