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As per a SEBI mandate, physical settlement is compulsory if a trader holds a position in any Stock F&O contracts on expiry date.

What is Physical Settlement?

In a Stock F&O contract, when there is an open position that has not been squared off by its expiry date, Physical Settlement takes place. This implies they have to physically give/take delivery of Stocks to settle the open transactions instead of settling them with cash..

Examples of physical settlement:

Futures

Long positions of 1 lot of Reliance, 250 quantity at Rs. 2000 i.e. Rs. 5 lakh contract value

F&O = 20% charges i.e. Rs. 1,00,000. This means, you are required to give Rs. 1 lakh, but if you decide to physically settle then you need to have a complete contract value of Rs. 5 lakhs.

Short positions of 1 lot Reliance 250 quantity at Rs. 2000 i.e. Rs. 5 lakh contract value

F&O = 20% charges i.e. Rs. 1,00,000. This means, you are required to give Rs. 1 lakh, but if you decide to physically settle then you need to have the holdings of 250 quantity of Reliance and Rs. 1 lakh margin money till expiry date.

Options

Long - 1 lot of Reliance, 250 quantity for strike price of Rs. 2000 Call (CE) Options.

If the underlying price of Reliance is greater than the strike price of Rs. 2000, then the contract is said to be ITM (In-The-Money). If you wish to go for physical settlement, you need to maintain a free ledger balance of Rs 5 Lakh in your account, else physical settlement would not be done.

Long - 1 lot of Reliance, 250 quantity for Strike price of Rs. 2000 Put (PE) Options.

If the underlying price of Reliance is lesser than strike price of Rs. 2000, then the contract is said to be ITM (In-The-Money). If you wish to go for physical settlement, you need to provide the Stocks (shares) equal to the lot quantity positioned to be available in Demat account, else physical settlement would not be done.

Please note -- 

• Short ITM PE options, treatment would be similar to Long ITM CE options.
  Free ledger balance equal to the contract value to be maintained.
• Short ITM CE options, treatment would be similar to Long ITM PE options.
  Holdings shares of lot quantity positioned to be available in Demat account.

What is the process for Physical Settlement on Upstox?
To opt for physical settlement on Upstox, you need to provide your consent first and here are the details for the same:

• To provide your consent for physical settlement of open Stock F&O contract(s) with June-2022 expiry visit the ‘Profile’ section on your Upstox account on our App / Web and give your consent from here before EOD on Tuesday, 28th June 2022.
• Based on your consent, Upstox will evaluate whether your position qualifies for physical settlements and if there is sufficient  ledger balances / holdings (whichever applicable) is available.
• Kindly, plan your trades keeping in mind that you will not be able to trade in fresh positions in the current June 2022 expiry F&O contracts from Wednesday, 29th June 2022 onwards. 
• Correspondingly, position conversion(s) on carry forward of any stock futures positions shall also not be permitted.

What other impact could this have on your positions?
Your position will automatically be squared-off on expiry day at 12:00 PM in case:

• You have not provided your consent for physical settlement
• You provided your consent for physical settlement and do not have Ledger Value (equal to contract value) / holdings available for the physical settlement of your positions.
• In a case of funds / holdings not being available for all the open positions, we will execute square offs for all the positions. Thus no partial funds / holdings evaluation for the expiring positions will be considered by our team.

What else to keep in mind?
Delivery margins would be applicable as per Exchange norms on all the existing long ITM (In The Money) stock option positions in a staggered manner as explained below:

• 10% of delivery margins computed on expiry -4 days EOD (Friday)
• 25% of delivery margins computed on expiry -3 days EOD (Monday)
• 45% of delivery margins computed on expiry -2 days EOD (Tuesday)*
• 70% of delivery margins computed on expiry -1 day EOD (Wednesday)*

• To avoid margin shortages, Upstox would be blocking such (above mentioned) delivery margins from Beginning of the Day (BOD) instead of End of the Day (EOD).
• If the positions are not squared off for any reason (e.g: non-liquidity), then the contract would have to be settled physically and you would be liable to pay the entire amount of the settlement.

* If you have opted for physical settlement, you would be required to fulfil the entire funds (contract value) / holdings requirement by EOD on Tuesday, 28th June 2022.

In case of spread contracts, you are advised to provide margins for both the legs  since the risk of one leg square off by you anytime would result in physical settlement of the other leg.

Brokerage in Physical settlement:

Since there is a substantial increase in effort and risk to settle these F&O positions resulting in physical delivery, if F&O positions result in physical delivery brokerage will be 0.25% of the physical settled value. For all the netted off positions brokerage will be 0.1% of the physical settled value. All physical settled contracts (Futures & Options) will also carry an applicable Exchange charge.

And that’s all. Keep a watchful eye on this page for more updates from Upstox!

All ITM Crude Oil Option contracts on 15th June 2022 will be converted into Futures contracts.

To avoid square-off, ensure that you maintain sufficient margin for the Future contracts before 10.00 PM today.

Motherson Sumi Systems Limited has changed its name to Samvardhana Motherson International Limited and changed its trading symbol from MOTHERSUMI to MOTHERSON.

This change will be effective from 9th June 2022.

What this means for you?

• This has no impact on your existing trades and positions
• After-Market-Orders placed on 8th and 9th June 2022 for MOTHERSUMI may not have been processed due to this
• All positions in futures and options contracts in the underlying security MOTHERSUMI (Motherson Sumi Systems Limited) will be carried forward with the underlying symbol MOTHERSON (Samvardhana Motherson International Limited)

You can refer to the Exchange circulars here: F&O, Equity.

AU Small Finance Bank (AUBANK) conducted a meeting with its Board of Directors on 26th April 2022. As per this meeting, it has declared, to the Exchange, an issue of Bonus Shares in the ratio of 1:1. The record date for the issue of Bonus Shares is 10th June 2022.

What are Bonus Shares?
These are additional shares given by a company to existing shareholders for free as an alternative to distributing dividends.

How does this corporate action impact Futures & Options Contracts?

Impact on Futures Contract: 

• The adjusted base price shall be arrived at by dividing the old futures price by the adjustment factor.
• The adjusted market lot shall be arrived at by multiplying the old market lot by the adjustment factor. The revised market lot would be 1000

Impact on Options Contract: 

• The adjusted strike price shall be arrived at by dividing the old strike price by the adjustment factor. 
• The adjusted market lot shall be arrived at by multiplying the old market lot by the adjustment factor. The revised market lot would be 1000.

Adjustment factor for the bonus issue of A: B is defined as (A+B)/B. In the case of AUBANK the adjustment factor is (1+1)/1 = 2 since the bonus issue ratio is 1:1.

For all positions taken before 9th June 2022, you may see a slight deviation in the carried forward (c/f) average price of AUBANK due to the corporate action mentioned above.

To know more, read the circular here.

NSE will be revising the lot size of 66 stock F&O contracts from May 2022.

Why is this revision happening?
SEBI mandates that the contract value of all F&O contracts remain between ₹5 - ₹10 Lakhs. Hence after NSE’s periodic review (every 6 months), if the contract value of stock F&O contracts is beyond this range, there is an upward or downward revision in its lot size.

As per this revision, here are the 12 stock F&O contracts whose lot size will reduce from May 2022 expiry date onwards:

Here are the 52 stock F&O contracts whose lot size will increase from July 2022 expiry dates onwards:

Here are the 2 stock F&O contracts whose lot size will reduce but not in multiples of the old lot size:

Keep in mind:

• Due to a stock split, the existing lot size for Jubilant Foods was revised to 625 from 125.  The lot size will be revised to 1250 from 625 for July 2022 expiry date onwards.
  Refer to the Exchange announcement here: LINK.
• The lot size for 133 stock F&O contracts will remain unchanged. Refer to the Exchange announcement here: LINK.