HKD Calendar

[Alix Lassauzet]

Hi QL-community,

Yesterday (Monday, 3th of July, 2017) seems to be an holiday in the Hong-Kong calendar according to QL. If I am right, the line L56 in hongkong.cpp explains this behaviour : the 1st of July fell on Saturday, so the SAR Establishment day was moved on this Monday (the 3rd of July).

But, the HKex was opened yesterday, and this day does not seem to be an holiday according to the official holiday schedule (https://www.hkex.com.hk/eng/market/sec_tradinfo/tradcal/nont10.htm).

Does the rule for this holiday have to be reviewed in QL ? Or did I miss something ?

Thanks !
Alix

[Luigi Ballabio]

The rule might need to be amended.  From the page you linked, it seems that the holiday is moved to Monday when falling on a Sunday (like in 2018, when it's celebrated on July 2nd) but not when it's on a Saturday.  If you fixed this already, please submit a PR.

Luigi

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 11:19 AM Alix Lassauzet <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi QL-community,

Yesterday (Monday, 3th of July, 2017) seems to be an holiday in the
Hong-Kong calendar according to QL. If I am right, the line L56 in
hongkong.cpp explains this behaviour : the 1st of July fell on Saturday, so
the SAR Establishment day was moved on this Monday (the 3rd of July).

But, the HKex was opened yesterday, and this day does not seem to be an
holiday according to the official holiday schedule (
https://www.hkex.com.hk/eng/market/sec_tradinfo/tradcal/nont10.htm
<https://www.hkex.com.hk/eng/market/sec_tradinfo/tradcal/nont10.htm>  ).

Does the rule for this holiday have to be reviewed in QL ? Or did I miss
something ?

Thanks !
Alix



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[Alix Lassauzet]

Okay Luigi, thanks for your feedback. I will send a PR as soon as possible !

Alix

[Alix Lassauzet]

Hi Luigi and QL-community,

I am preparing a PR to fix the rule of the SAR Establishment Day and add some omitted holidays for the next two years (2017/2018).

But, in the same time, I am wondering if this amendment might not be applied to other special days like the New Year's Day, the Labor Day and the National Day. Indeed, the rule seems to be the same in the code (ie, move to Monday) but after a check on two stocks quoted on the HKex (e.g. China Power International and China Telecom, with the RIC 2380.HK and 0728.HK respectively), they seem to be quoted on days expected to be holidays for QL :

New Year's Day:
* The 1st of January, 2011 falls on Saturday => the 3rd of January, 2011 is thus expected to be an holiday for QL while I found quotations for the two stocks above

Labor Day:
* Idem for the 3rd of May, 2010

National Day:
* Idem for the 3d of October, 2011 and the 3rd of October, 2016

In fact, the rule seems to say that the holiday is "moved" to the next following day only if it originally fell on Sunday.

Do you have an opinion about this ?

Thanks !

Alix

[Luigi Ballabio]

Hi Alix,
    thanks for the work you're doing. I'd go for amending the other holidays, too.

Luigi

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 11:20 Alix Lassauzet <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Luigi and QL-community,

I am preparing a PR to fix the rule of the SAR Establishment Day and add
some omitted holidays for the next two years (2017/2018).

But, in the same time, I am wondering if this amendment might not be applied
to other special days like the New Year's Day, the Labor Day and the
National Day. Indeed, the rule seems to be the same in the code (ie, move to
Monday) but after a check on two stocks quoted on the HKex (e.g. China Power
International and China Telecom, with the RIC 2380.HK and 0728.HK
respectively), they seem to be quoted on days expected to be holidays for QL
:

New Year's Day:
* The 1st of January, 2011 falls on Saturday => the 3rd of January, 2011 is
thus expected to be an holiday for QL while I found quotations for the two
stocks above

Labor Day:
* Idem for the 3rd of May, 2010

National Day:
* Idem for the 3d of October, 2011 and the 3rd of October, 2016

In fact, the rule seems to say that the holiday is "moved" to the next
following day only if it originally fell on Sunday.

Do you have an opinion about this ?

Thanks !

Alix



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