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Rupee Dollar Exchange Rate Woes

A reader mails in: While reading thru the financial page of a newspaper I read this – "The rupee surged to a six-month high against the dollar on ...

NSE changes Lot Sizes for F&O, Finally

After SEBI standardised lot sizes, the National Stock Exchange has not acted to change the lot sizes, resulting in the unhappy situation of my not being able ...

Are Futures Simply Better?

I’ve been railing about the cash volumes in the market recently. With volumes reaching 12,000 cr. – lesser than most of 2007 – and as I recently tweeted, ...

EURO-INR, JPY-INR, Pound-INR contracts in India

SEBI has allowed trading of additional currency contracts apart from the currently traded USD-INR contracts. We’ll soon be able to trade the Euro, the ...

SEBI Standardizes F&O Contract Lot Sizes

SEBI has now specified new lot size standards for all futures/options contracts: Price Band (Rs.) Contract Size Lot Size (No. of units of underlying) Value ...

NSE changes lot sizes for 144 stocks

After the sudden upmove, a number of stocks have gone so far north that their lot sizes, which are usually calibrated to about 2 lakhs worth contracts each, ...

SEBI Group Recommendations for Derivatives

A thought provoking set of recommendations for derivatives has been released by a SEBI working group. Mini contracts on equity futures, apart from the Mini ...

F&O Course: Has to be Dec 13

Due to some unscheduled laziness the Futures and Options course has had to be moved to December 13. I wanted to do it tomorrow but for this WiZiQ will have to ...

No more margin tension for the calendar spreaders

SEBI has released a notification that calendar spreads (buying one month’s future and selling another) would no longer require margin towards the end of ...

Margins – an NSE FAQ

NSE has released a detailed article on margins and how they are calculated. While some elements here are mathematical you can understand how margins work in ...