NSE revises market lots for stock derivatives effective October 29, 2025

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has revised the market lot size for several stock derivative contracts starting today, October 29, 2025. This periodic review is part of SEBI’s guidelines to ensure contract values remain consistent with underlying price movements over time. You can refer to the circular here.

Further, the new contract sizes apply to upcoming November 2025 and January 2026 expiries, depending on the category.

Sr. No Category No. of Stocks Effective date Description
1 Revised Downwards 8 November 2025 expiries onwards Lot size reduced
2 Revised Upwards 17 January 2026 expiries onwards Lot size increased
3 Unchanged 180 - Lot size remains unchanged
4 Revised downwards (old lot not a multiple of new lot) 3 January 2026 expiries onwards Adjustment for non-multiple cases

Revised downwards: Effective from November 2025 expiries

For these eight securities, the market lot size has been reduced. The revised lots will apply from the November 2025 expiry onwards.

Sr. No Underlying Symbol Current Lot Size Revised Lot Size
1 BAJAJ FINSERV LTD. BAJAJFINSV 500 250
2 BHARAT ELECTRONICS LTD BEL 2850 1425
3 HDFC BANK LTD HDFCBANK 1100 550
4 HINDALCO INDUSTRIES LTD HINDALCO 1400 700
5 LAURUS LABS LIMITED LAURUSLABS 1700 850
6 MAX FINANCIAL SERV LTD MFSL 800 400
7 NMDC LTD. NMDC 13500 6750
8 TVS MOTOR COMPANY LTD TVSMOTOR 350 175

(As per NSE Circular Annexure 1)

Revised upwards: Effective from January 2026 expiry

The following 17 stocks have seen an increase in their market lot size, effective from January 2026 expiry contracts. Contracts maturing in November and December 2025 will continue with the old lot sizes.

Sr. No Underlying Symbol Current Market Lot Revised Market Lot
1 BHARAT DYNAMICS LIMITED BDL 325 350
2 HFCL LIMITED HFCL 6450 7125
3 INOX WIND LIMITED INOXWIND 3272 3575
4 KFIN TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED KFINTECH 450 500
5 KPIT TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED KPITTECH 400 425
6 MAZAGON DOCK SHIPBUIL LTD MAZDOCK 175 200
7 NUVAMA WEALTH MANAGE LTD NUVAMA 75 100
8 PETRONET LNG LIMITED PETRONET 1800 1900
9 PG ELECTROPLAST LTD PGEL 700 950
10 PIRAMAL PHARMA LIMITED PPLPHARMA 2500 2625
11 REC LIMITED RECLTD 1275 1400
12 RAIL VIKAS NIGAM LIMITED RVNL 1375 1525
13 SIEMENS LTD SIEMENS 125 175
14 SONA BLW PRECISION FRGS L SONACOMS 1050 1225
15 SUZLON ENERGY LIMITED SUZLON 8000 9025
16 TORRENT POWER LTD TORNTPOWER 375 425
17 VARUN BEVERAGES LIMITED VBL 1025 1125

(As per NSE Circular Annexure 2)

Unchanged

Lot sizes for 180 underlying stocks remain unchanged. You can download the full list here.

(As per NSE Circular Annexure 3)

Revised downwards (old lot not a multiple of the new one)

The lot size for these three stocks has been revised downwards. However, the previous lot size is not a multiple of the new lot size. To avoid any operational issues, the revised market lots will apply only to January 2026 and subsequent expiry contracts.

Sr. No Underlying Symbol Current Lot Size Revised Lot Size
1 EICHER MOTORS LTD EICHERMOT 175 100
2 L&T FINANCE LIMITED LTF 4462 2250
3 SOLAR INDUSTRIES (I) LTD SOLARINDS 75 50

What’s applicable for the revised lot sizes (Annexure 2 & 4)?

To avoid any operational complexities, here’s how the changes will be implemented:

  1. Only the far month contracts, that is, the January 2026 expiry contracts, will have the revised market lots.
  • November 2025 and December 2025 contracts will continue with the existing lot sizes.

  • All subsequent contracts (January 2026 expiry and beyond) will reflect the new market lots.

  1. The day spread order book will not be available for the December 2025 to January 2026 combination contracts.

For the computation, NSE has considered the average closing price of each underlying for the period between September 1 and September 30, 2025.

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So, if you’re short 8000(1Lot) Jan 2026 Suzlon, it’s impossible to close your position?

I see it was decided on Sep 30. Could you send alerts before lot size change if you hold positions or at least a nudge on the last trading day?

Jan 2026 expiry introduced today only with new lot size. So no issues.

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I have HDFCBANK OPEN POSITION.

I can closed it right ?

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Yes, no issues.

Please give nudge regarding these important updates on kite when market is open.

90 % of traders do not have funds to take delivery of option contract.

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