Need a Quick Confirmation on Crude Oil Option Expiry

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January Crude Oil Future expiry is on Jan 16. But the Options are shown to be expiring today (14 Jan)

My queries

  1. Are the Crude Oil options expiring today?
  2. If today they are expiring, does it mean that ITM/OTM/ATM will be decided based on the last price of Crude at 11.55 pm today? Or will ITM/OTM depend on Jan 16 Future expiry?

If my short options expire at OTM today before I exit, I will get the entire premium right and do not need to depend on Jan Future option expiry on 16th. Correct me if I am wrong.

Please help!

As suggested by BB789 in the comment section, tagging @Arockiya_Raja @siva Will be grateful if you can help me

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ITM Options devolve into futures.

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What is the expiry date of the options? I am confused with different date for option and future . In crude oil, there is no weekly options but still option and future expiry are different

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During options expiry, ITM options gets converted to futures and then futures expire a few days later some with mandatory physical settlement(which zerodha tries to avoid, but if it can’t, you must buy/sell barrels of crude oil).

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Thanks a lot! So, if my options expire in OTM, I don’t need to worry.

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I think so… if you need official confirmation, tag zerodha or create a support ticket on zerodha or call em.

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I don’t want to create a ticket for it. Btw, can we tag Zerodha representative in this posts ? What is the ID?

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@siva @moderators @Arockiya_Raja

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Thanks so much for your help!

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Yes, you don’t need to worry if it’s a short OTM position. Its value will be close to zero at expiry, and you’ll keep the premium. You can check the premium—it should be near zero and dropping quickly if today is the expiry

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Thanks for the confirmation. :slight_smile: I knew that about F&O but wanted to check if same rule applies for Oil.

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The above discussion in this thread is correct🙂. I’m just writing it here for confirmation so it can help others as well.

The settlement price is usually calculated as the weighted average price of the January Futures contract during the last 30 minutes of today’s trading session.

If your short option is out of the money based on this closing settlement price, it simply expires worthless, meaning its value becomes zero. You keep the entire premium you collected, and your obligation ends tonight itself you don’t need to worry about the January 16 Futures expiry or any risk of the position being devolved into a futures contract.

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Thanks so much!

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@siva @Arockiya_Raja

For short positions in crude oil far OTM options expiring on 17.03.2026, very high margin was blocked in MCX commodity section whereas NIL margin needs to be blocked as option were far out of the money and expired worthless on expiry. Ticket is also raised with ticket no. 20260319548133.

Kindly correct the margin blocked in MCX commodity segment on 17.03.2026 day end.

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@Ragavendran_M @Meher_Smaran
tagging for faster resolution of query

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Yeah. We observed that MCX has incorrectly charged SPAN and exposure margins in the EOD margin file for expired crude OTM short options. As per our understanding, ideally, the exchange should not have applied any margins. We have sent an email to the exchange for clarification and will update you once we receive a response.

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@Adarsh_Patil @siva @Arockiya_Raja @Ragavendran_M @Meher_Smaran @nithin_kumrr

Any update on this support ticket.

Only concern is to get interest charged on excess collateral reversed as margin required would have been NIL due to expired OTM crude oil options on 17.03.2026. Margin remained positive throughout whole day on 17.03.2026. It was just that 50% cash was not maintained for margin.

Kindly expedite support ticket 20260319548133 resolution.

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We haven’t received an update from the exchange end yet. I’ll ask the team to revert on the ticket and get this sorted out quickly :slightly_smiling_face: