Announcements

On account of Muharram, markets will be closed on Thursday, 19th August 2021. Trading will resume on Friday, 20th August 2021.

MCX will be closed on Thursday, 19th August 2021 for the morning session. The second session (5:00 PM to 11:30 PM) will take place as usual.

Please note: All fund withdrawal requests placed on Thursday will be processed on Friday, 20th August 2021.

16th August 2021 is a settlement holiday on account of Parsi New Year. Due to this, all Equity trades placed on 13th and 16th August 2021 will be settled on18th August 2021.

To help you understand what this means, we’ve simplified the details below.

What’s a settlement holiday?
Settlement holidays are when markets are open but settlement of your trades do not take place as per the usual T+2 cycle because either the depositaries (NSDL and CDSL) are closed or banks are closed on that day.

How does this holiday impact your trades?
Since the settlement date denotes the final transfer of ownership of shares and not the day you made the trade, a holiday in between causes a delay in the final transfer of shares.

What will be the impact of the Settlement Holiday on 16th August 2021?
On account of the settlement holiday on Monday, 16th August 2021 kindly note the following impact on your holdings:

1. All trades placed on 13th and 16th August 2021 in the Equity segment will be settled on 18th August 2021.
2. All trades placed on 13th August in the Derivative segment will be settled on 17th August.
3. All shares bought on 13th August will be visible under T1 holdings on the 16th August but you will only be able to sell them on 17th August.
4. The credit bill amount for all segments on 13th August will not be available for trading or withdrawal purposes on 16th August  because this amount will be blocked for one day due to the settlement holiday.

You can also check a list of future settlement holidays here.

POWERGRID Limited conducted a meeting with its Board of Directors on 20th July, 2021. As per this meeting it has declared  to the Exchange, the issuance of Bonus Shares in the ratio of 1:3 of ₹10/- each. The record date for the bonus shares is 30th July 2021.

What are bonus shares?
These are free additional shares given by the company to existing shareholders as an alternative to distributing dividends.

How does this corporate action impact Futures & Options Contracts?
Impact on Futures Contract: 

• Futures base price: The adjusted futures base price shall be arrived at by dividing the old futures price by the adjustment factor.
• Market Lot: The adjusted market lot shall be arrived at by multiplying the old market lot by the adjustment factor. The revised market lot would be 5333

Impact on Options Contract: 

• Strike Price: The adjusted strike price shall be arrived at by dividing the old strike price by the adjustment factor. 
• Market Lot: The adjusted market lot shall be arrived at by multiplying the old market lot by the adjustment factor. The revised market lot would be 5333

Adjustment factor: For bonus shares this is = (A+B)/B. In the case of POWERGRID, the adjustment factor is (1+3)/3 = 1.3333, since the bonus issue ratio is 1:3

For all positions taken before 29th July 2021, you may see a slight deviation in the carried forward (c/f) average price of POWERGRID due to the corporate action mentioned above.

To know more, read the circular here: https://bit.ly/375pe9c

We are conducting a scheduled upgrade & maintenance activity today, 24th July 2021 from 9.30 AM to 12.30 PM to ensure that you can enjoy a seamless trading and investing experience on Upstox. During this time you may not be able to login to the Upstox mobile app & desktop platform. Thank you for your patience.

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:

Future

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.

Option

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 July-2021 expiry visit the ‘Profile’ section on your Upstox account on our App / Web and give your consent from here before EOD on Tuesday, 27th July 2021.
• 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 July-2021 expiry F&O contracts from Wednesday, 28th July 2021 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 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 i.e. 27th July 2021.

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.

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