Equity derivatives News

According to the regulator, the number of unique individual investors trading in EDS is down by 20 per cent compared to previous year and up by 24 per cent from 2 years ago.

Currently, insurers are allowed to trade in rupee interest rate derivatives such as forward rate agreements, interest rate swaps, and exchange-traded interest rate futures. 

Shares of Reliance Industries ended 3 percent lower on Monday, wiping out Rs 12,488 crore from its market valuation, after Sebi banned the company and 12 others from equity derivatives trading for one year.  

Leading stock exchange BSE Wednesday said that it will launch multi-legged order entry facility in equity derivatives segment from August 10.

BSE Tuesday said it will introduce multi-legged order entry facility in its equity derivatives segment from next month, a move that would allow a trader to place a combination of orders across different F&O contracts.

With stock markets remained buoyant during the 2014-15 fiscal, bourses saw a sharp jump in their average daily turnover.

The government is working on a number of changes to ease fund raising, including relaxation in the depository receipt framework and reforming equity derivatives, currency & commodities segments and liberalising the ECB framework, a senior government official said Monday.

After having overtaken its rival NSE in the equity derivatives turnover on Tuesday, BSE's trading in the segment halved to Rs 1.71 lakh crore Wednesday.