You can now trade in weekly BSE currency Futures and Options contracts on Kite.
The contract specifications are as below:
Symbol | USDINR |
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Unit of trading | USDINR: 1 unit denotes 1000 USD. |
Underlying / Order Quotation | The exchange rate in Indian Rupees for US Dollars |
Tick size | INR 0.0025 |
Trading hours | Monday to Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
Contract cycle | 11 serial weekly contracts expiring on Friday, excluding expiry week where monthly contract expires on a Friday. If the last Friday of the expiring week is a trading holiday, then the expiry day is the previous trading day |
Last trading day | Friday of the expiring week at 12:30 pm |
Quantity freeze | 5001 or greater |
Settlement | Daily settlement: T+1 / Final settlement: T+2 |
Mode of settlement | Cash settled in Indian Rupees |
Daily settlement price | Calculated based on the last half an hour weighted average price of futures across exchanges |
Final settlement price | Reference rate published by FBIL for INR / 1 USD pair |
You can check out the charges for trading in the Currency segment here:
You can learn more about Currency trading in this module on Varsity:
Note: Currently weekly contracts of only USDINR are available for trading. Other currency pairs will be made available soon.