Commodity price

Commodities
1

The gold price is more than the margin, but for crude the price is less than margin, why to give 3 times price as margin for crude oil?

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2

Crudeoil lot size is 10 barrels per contract so contract value is 8775*10=87,750
Margin is calculated based on this contract value

3

No this isn’t the explanation, the explanation is that CRUDEOILM demands more margin

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Commodity Contract Value NRML Margin Effective Leverage
CRUDEOILM ₹81,050 ₹35,013 ~2.3×
GOLDTEN ₹162,563 ₹23,490 ~6.9×