What is Futures Trading at ICICIDirect.com?
As a customer of ICICIdirect now, you can trade on index and stock futures on NSE. It comes with a comprehensive tracking cum risk management solution to give you enhanced leveraging on your trading limits. In futures trading, you take buy/sell positions in index or stock(s) contracts expiring in different months. If, during the course of the contract life, the price moves in your favor (rises in case you have a buy position or falls in case you have a sell position), you make a profit. In case the price movement is adverse, you incur a loss. To take the buy/sell position on index/stock futures, you have to place certain % of order value as margin. With futures trading, you can leverage on your trading limit by taking buy/sell positions much more than what you could have taken in cash segment. However, the risk profile of your transactions goes up. . On which exchanges will I be able to buy and sell in futures market? To begin with, ICICIdirect offers its customers execution capability
As a customer of ICICIdirect now, you can trade on index and stock futures on NSE. It comes with a comprehensive tracking cum risk management solution to give you enhanced leveraging on your trading limits. Margin in being computed at the trade level as well as order level by risk adjusted spread and non-spread positions by identifying the maximum marginable trade and order value. In futures trading, you take buy/sell positions in index or stock(s) contracts expiring in different months. If, during the course of the contract life, the price moves in your favor (rises in case you have a buy position or falls in case you have a sell position), you make a profit. In case the price movement is adverse, you incur a loss. To take the buy/sell position on index/stock futures, you have to place certain % of order value as margin. With futures trading, you can leverage on your trading limit by taking buy/sell positions much more than what you could have taken in cash segment. However, the risk
