CLEARING MECHANISM The clearing Mechanism essentially involves working out open positions and obligations of clearing (Self clearing/trading-cum-clearing/professional clearing) members. This position is considered for exposure and daily margin purposes. The open positions of CMs are arrived at by aggregating the…
FUTURES AND OPTIONS MARKET INSTRUMENTS The Futures and Options segment of NSE provides trading facilities for the following derivative instruments. INDEX BASED FUTURES INDEX BASED OPTIONS INDIVIDUAL STOCK OPTIONS INDIVIDUAL STOCK FUTURES CONTRACT SPECIFICATIONS FOR INDEX FUTURES NSE trades Nifty,…
FUTURE PAYOFFS Futures contracts have linear payoffs. In simple words, it means that the losses as well as profits for the buyer and the seller of futures contract are unlimited. These linear payoffs are fascinating as they can be combined with…
FUTURES AND OPTIONS An interesting question to ask at this stage is, when would one use options instead of futures? Options are different from futures in several interesting senses. At a practical level, the option buyer faces an interesting situation.…
INDEX DERIVATIVES Index derivatives are derivative contracts which have the index as the underlying. The most popular index derivatives contracts the world over are index futures and index options. NSE’s market index, the S&P CNX NIFTY was scientifically designed to…
The derivatives trading on the NSE commenced with S & P CNX Nifty Index futures on June. 12.2000. The trading in Index options commenced on June 4. 2001 and trading in options on individual securities commenced on July 2. 2001.…