Nifty futures historical lot size information

[nithin]

@dtrade

Hi @nithin I did not go through each year but did a quick check and yes it was at 50 for a short period Below are the high-level findings.

2000-05 -200

2005-07 -100

2007 - 50

2008 - 25

2009 - 50 (maybe because market fell so much that NSE had to revert to 50)

2010-15 -25

2016-18 - 75 (why did they increase the lot saying they want to protect retail investors. Is this true or is there some other logic?)

Yep SEBI put in a rule saying that minimum value of a contract should be around Rs 5lks for a derivatives contract. Hence the lot size of Nifty and all stock F&O contracts went up in 2016. And yes the reasoning was that SEBI didn’t want extremely small retail investors to take the risks of trading derivative contracts.

Btw thanks for putting this out.