Cboe Canada Pre-Production Weekend Test #2

OVERVIEW

In support of the upcoming migration of the Cboe Canada Inc. exchange's ("Cboe Canada") NEO-L, NEO-N, and NEO-D Trading Books and Crossing Facility, as well as the migration of the NEO Connect Inc. trading platform ("NEO Connect"), to the technology of Cboe Canada's parent company ("Cboe Tech"), which is pending regulatory approval, Cboe Canada will host the next weekend test on Saturday, November 9, 2024. Cboe Canada has already successfully completed internal tests on the new Cboe Tech pre-production trading platform and remains on track for a March 3, 2025 launch.

The remaining pre-production environment weekend testing opportunities are as follows:

Date	Description
October 19, 2024	1st Weekend Test (All Symbols)
November 9, 2024	2nd Weekend Test (All Symbols)
December 14, 2024	3rd Weekend Test (All Symbols)
January 25, 2025	4th Weekend Test (All Symbols)
March 1, 2025	5th Weekend Test (All Symbols)

A full timeline, including all weekend tests, is published on the Cboe Canada Technology Migration Microsite (under the heading "Cboe Canada Migration Roadmap").

Clients should plan to participate in at least one test and are encouraged to participate in as many weekend tests as possible.

Please note, clients must successfully complete a Certification Conformance Test for order entry ("Certification") prior to trading in the pre-production environment. To obtain access to the Certification test script, please contact your firm's Account Administrator(s) to create a Cboe Customer Web Portal account, if your firm does not already have one.

Firms that wish to submit orders in the weekend test on Saturday, November 9, 2024, should complete Certification submissions by 12PM (Eastern Standard Time) on Friday, November 8, 2024, to allow time for Trade Desk review and approval.

MIGRATION TEST DETAILS

Weekend testing schedules are detailed in the following tables.

Weekend Testing Schedule for Cboe Canada Listed Securities (Eastern Standard Time)

Session	NEO-L	NEO-N	NEO-D	Crossing Facility
Pre Open	7:00AM - 9:30AM	N/A	8:00AM - 9:30AM	N/A
Opening Call	9:30AM	N/A	N/A	N/A
Continuous Trading	9:30AM - 12:00PM	8:00AM - 12:30PM	9:30AM - 12:00PM	8:00AM - 12:30PM
Closing Call	12:00PM	N/A	N/A	N/A
Extended Trading	12:00PM - 12:30PM	N/A	N/A	N/A

Weekend Testing Schedule for Other Traded Securities (Eastern Standard Time)

Session	NEO-L	NEO-N	NEO-D	Crossing Facility
Pre Open	N/A	N/A	8:00AM - 9:30AM	N/A
Continuous Trading	8:00AM - 12:30PM	8:00AM - 12:30PM	9:30AM - 12:00PM	8:00AM - 12:30PM

Weekend Testing Schedule for All Symbols in NEO Connect (Eastern Standard Time)

Session
Pre Open	8:00AM - 12:00PM
Fixed NAV Auction	12:30PM
Variable NAV Auction	12:50PM

Testing will be allowed in all symbols for all weekend tests on the pre-production platform. Automatic order generators will be enabled in the following symbols to provide liquidity and generate market data messages:

TSX
Range A-F	ABX
Range G-M	GFL
Range N-S	NA
Range T-Z	TD
TSXV
Range A-F	AGMR.WT.A
Range G-M	GASX.DB
Range N-S	NTX
Range T-Z	TPC
CSE
Range A-F	ACRG.A.U
Range G-M	GLDR
Range N-S	NTAR
Range T-Z	TCF.WT
Cboe Canada
Range A-F	DMET
Range A-F	DMET.DB
Range A-F	DMET.WT
Range G-M	GLAS.A.U
Range N-S	NVDA
Range T-Z	VBG
NEO Connect
Range A-F	AMUKA
Range G-M	IVGBF
Range N-S	NEXTT.A
Range T-Z	WCITF

NEO Connect

Clients are encouraged to participate and test the following:

• Connecting to the Cboe Tech pre-production environment
• Order entry
• FIX Drop and ODROP functionality
• Receipt of market data feeds
• Recovery of FIX/Binary Order Entry ("BOE") and market data after disconnecting

During the testing period, in addition to the automated orders noted above, Cboe Canada will also manually generate orders and trades and perform trade breaks and trade amendments.

Pre-Population of Pre-Production Logins

Cboe Canada has pre-populated your firm's Cboe Tech pre-production logical ports with default port attributes based on your firm's current port counts in the Cboe Canada legacy technology production environment. Firms are strongly encouraged to test connectivity to their logical ports prior to weekend test participation. Telnetting is allowed 24/7, and firms can log on Monday through Friday during standard trading hours.

You can view your Logical Ports in the Cboe Customer Web Portal at any time, and you can review FIX/BOE order entry port settings by selecting "View Port Attributes Info" as shown in the image below.

If additional pre-production ports are needed, please submit a Logical Port Request via the Cboe Customer Web Portal. You may also 'Modify' existing ports via the Logical Port Request tool by selecting the relevant ports and inputting into the 'Notes' field the attributes you wish to change. Please refer to the Cboe Canada Technology Migration Microsite for links to our FIX and BOE specifications and to view a list of available port attributes.

If you do not have access to the above tools, please contact your Account Administrator(s) to obtain access. Please log out of the Cboe Customer Web Portal and then log in again after permission changes are made.

Weekday Pre-Production Environment Access

As of Monday, October 21, 2024, the Cboe Tech pre-production environment became available to support trading in test symbols Monday through Friday. Weekday pre-production trading hours match the current platform trading hours. During the pre-production environment testing period, orders in test symbols only will be accepted. All other orders will be rejected. The following test symbols are available in the pre-production environment Monday through Friday:

AYQ.A, AYQ.H, AYZ.A, AYZT, AYZ.D, EYZ.C, EYZ.F, EYZ.D, MYZ.A, MYZ.C, MYZ.D YTZ.B, YYZ.A, ZYZ.C, ZYZ.D, ZYZ.B, ZYZ.F, ZYZ, ZYQ.A, ZYQ.H, ZYQ.Z, ZYZ.A

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please contact the Cboe Canada Trade Desk at 416-933-5950 with any questions or if you need any other assistance.

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