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Warning: December 2015 F&O Contracts Will Need To Be A Multiple Of 75, You Have Three Days To Act

Lot sizes for Futures and Options contracts starting November are increasing, and the Nifty will go to a lot size of 75. What happens, then, if you had bought ...

SEBI Increases Lot Sizes to Rs. 5 lakh from November, Index and Stock Contracts Will Change

SEBI has changed the game for derivatives traders. A new circular (HT Vashistha) has increased the lot sizes of each contract, so that: The minimum contract ...

Interest Rate Futures Get Some Market Love; 500 cr. Traded Today, 3,000 cr. Yesterday

NSE Introduced Interest Rate Future (again) yesterday, and this time there seems to be some early interest from players. More than 3,000 cr. was traded ...

How Have Stocks Done In a Month of High Carry?

Last week was the Futures and Options expiry and something strange happened. The Nifty October Future – 1 month away – was at a 1.1% premium to the ...

Nifty Future Premium Near The Highest Ever

What’s with the Nifty futures? With the Nifty closing at 5375, the futures were trading at 5441, a near 70 point premium.Measured as a fraction of the Nifty ...

Q&A: Futures Versus Cash

Suhail Kazi writes in on the derivatives post with a few questions that I thought belong in a separate post. a) Is there a T+2 (or other) settlement period for ...

The Derivative Alternative

(From my article at Yahoo) While derivatives have been called weapons of mass destruction and worse, they can provide alternative methods to participate in the ...

MV Chronicles: Downside Protection and Understanding Margins

The last two MarketVision Chronicles have some awesome (we’re modest) pieces for you. (You’ll need to register, and it’s Free!) Sep 12: Protecting the ...

You Can Trade 91-day T-Bills Soon

Every regulatory body in the Indian market woke up recently and decided to allow Interest rate futures on treasury bills. SEBI said ok, and RBI said ok. What ...

Going Down in Flames: The 200 DMA Trade

Warning: Technical post (Repeated from the MarketVision blog) The 200-DMA setup went seriously against me – there was a slight attempt to take the 200 ...