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SBI to L&T: NSE revises F&O lot size of derivative contracts for 54 stocks

Exchange has cut the lot size for the futures and options contracts of 42 stocks to half of the current lot sizes. The revised lot sizes will be effective from 26 April for expiries in May or later

Derivative Strategy on Cummins for March expiry as stock nears fresh high

Primary trend of the stock has been bullish with higher tops and higher bottoms on the weekly chart

Majority of F&O trading from co-location for second consecutive year

Co-location is the practice by institutional investors to locate their servers on the site of the stock exchange, in exchange for a fee, to cut down on latency and trade that much faster

Trading turnover logs fresh high in February, rises 2 times in a year

Sign of strong investor confidence say experts

Regulatory nod for US spot bitcoin ETF options may take months: Report

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last month approved spot bitcoin ETFs, in a watershed for the crypto industry

Voltas sees long build up: Here's a Bull Spread Strategy for the stock

Long build up is seen in the VOLTAS Futures on Thursday where Open Interest rose by 7% (Prov)

Confused, surprised at investor interest in F&Os, says Sebi chief

Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch on Monday said she is "confused and surprised" at investor interest in Futures and Options (F&O) despite 90 per cent of individuals losing money in the segment. Buch said there is a need for investors to look at the long term and added that chances of making inflation-beating returns are much brighter through this strategy. Speaking during the launch of the Investor Risk Reduction Access (IRRA) platform at Asia's oldest stock bourse BSE here, Buch pointed to a recent research by the capital markets regulator which pointed out that only 11 per cent of the 45.24 lakh individual traders in the F&O segment made profit. As per the research, there was an exponential increase in the F&O segment participation during the pandemic, with the total number of unique individual traders increasing by over 500 per cent from the 7.1 lakh in FY19. "I must admit, I am always a little confused and surprised as to why people continue to do that (bet in ...

HCLTech strong on charts: HDFC Securities suggests Bull Spread Strategy

Technology stocks are looking good on the short to medium-term charts, said Nandish Shah of HDFC Securities

From October 16, Bankex derivatives expiry date to shift to Monday

The exchange had chosen Friday as the expiry day for its relaunched Sensex and Bankex futures and options contracts to differentiate from market leader NSE

Sebi mandates risk disclosures for F&O trades, to protect retail investor

A study published by Sebi in January showed that only one in 10 F&O traders turned out to be profitable during FY22

F&O strategy: HDFC Securities suggests Bull Spread on L&T Finance

Nandish Shah of HDFC Securities recommends to buy L&T Finance 96 call option and simultaneously sell 100 call of the May series

Average daily cash volumes continue to dip; F&O segment hits new high

Markets remained volatile during the month amid the banking crisis in the developed world, boosting trading activity

Finance Bill 2023: STT hike on F&O likely to make a dent in volumes

Sebi study for FY22 had shown that 9 out of 10 F&O traders had incurred losses

Finance Bill: Centre hikes STT on futures and options trading by up to 25%

STT was introduced in 2004 and is levied on transactions involving different types of securities through the stock exchange route

NSE withdraws decision to drop Zee Entertainment from F&O segment

NSE said post the NCLAT order, ZEEL will move out of IBC framework, hence the surveillance action in the stock shall be reverted and the F and O contracts with May 2024 will be available

Stocks to watch: M&M, Nykaa, SAIL, Sun Pharma, NALCO, Oil India, Tata Steel

Stocks to watch today: SAIL, Nykaa, Power Finance Corporation, Gujarat Gas, Castrol India, Campus Activewear will report the October-December quarter (Q3FY23) results

Nandish Shah of HDFC Securities suggests Bull Spread strategy on IGL

The stock price of Indraprastha Gas (IGL) has been taking support at 200 day EMA since January 2023

Sebi study suggests 89% retail traders in equity F&O suffered losses

Sebi on Wednesday said it will soon issue guidelines on additional risk disclosures required to be made by brokers and exchanges to investors as its study suggested that every 9 in 10 individual traders in the equity F&O segment suffered losses in FY 2021-22. The findings, part of a study conducted by the regulator under the supervision of a working group, analysed the trading by individual investors with regard to net profit or loss encountered by them in the equity F&O (Futures & Options) segment for the period FY19 and FY22 only. The study is based on a sample of all individual clients of all the top-10 stock brokers, accounting for 67 per cent of the overall individual client turnover in the equity F&O segment during FY 2021-22. It revealed that 89 per cent of the individual traders (9 out of 10 individual traders) in the equity F&O segment incurred losses, with an average loss of Rs 1.1 lakh during FY22. Moreover, 90 per cent of the active traders incurred ...

Sebi to introduce more safeguards for F&O as traders' losses mount

Regulator's study on F&O segment shows over 90% traders incurred losses in FY22, with the average hit over 15x the earnings of the 10% who made profits

Sebi brings in net settlement of cash, F&O segment upon expiry of stock

Capital markets regulator Sebi on Wednesday introduced the mechanism of net settlement of cash and Futures & Options (F&O) segment upon expiry of stock derivatives. The move is aimed at providing better alignment of cash and derivatives segment, mitigation of price risk in certain cases and netting efficiencies for market participants, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said in a circular. Under the mechanism, the obligations arising out of cash segment settlement and physical settlement of F&O segments, upon expiry of stock derivatives, would be settled on a net basis as against the current approach of settling such obligations separately. The benefit of netting (merged settlements) would be available to investors who trade and clear through the same TM-CM (trading member-clearing member) combination in cash and F&O segment. However, investors whose TM clears trades through different CM/Clearing Corporation (CC) will not be able to avail the benefit of .