RSI – Relative Strength Indicator Developed by J. Welles Wilder and introduced in his book, New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) is an extremely popular momentum oscillator. The RSI compares the magnitude of a…
TYPES OF MARGINS The Margin system for Futures and Options segment of NSE is explained below: INITIALMARGIN: Initial margin in Futures and Options segment is computed by NSCCL upto client level for open positions of CMs/Tms. These are required to be…
EXERCISE SETTLEMENT Although most option buyers and sellers close out their options positions by an offsetting closing transaction, an understanding of exercise can help an option buyer determine whether exercise might be more advantageous than an offsetting sale of the…
CLEARING AND SETTLEMENT National Securities Clearing Corporation Limited (NSCCL) undertakes clearing and settlement of all trades executed on the Futures and Options Segment of the NSE. It also acts as legal counter party to all trades on the Futures and…
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,…
ENTITIES IN THE TRADING SYSTEM There are four entities in the trading system. Trading Members, Clearing Members, Professional Clearing Members and Participants. 1. TRADING MEMBERS: Trading Members are members of NSE. They can trade either on their own account or…
TRADING FUTURES AND OPTION TRADING SYSTEM In this chapter we shall take a brief look at the trading system for nse india futures and options market. However, the best way to get a feel of the trading system is to actual ly…
APPLICATIONS OF FUTURES AND OPTIONS The phenomenal growth of financial derivatives across the world is attributed the fulfilment of needs of hedgers, speculators and arbitraguers by these products. In this chapter we first look at how trading futures differs from trading the…
INTRODUCTION TO OPTIONS In this section, we look at the next derivative product to be traded on the -NSE, namely Options. Options are fundamentally different from forward and futures contracts. An option gives the holder of the option the right…
FUTURES TERMINOLOGY SPOT PRICE: The price at which an asset trades in the spot market. FUTURES PRICE: The price at which the futures contract trades in the futures market. CONTRACT CYCLE: The period over which a contract trades. The index…