MCX launches futures trading in cotton

04 Oct 2011 Evaluate

Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) has launched futures trading in cotton. The contract recorded a trading volume of 9,600 bales valued at Rs 17.73 crore. The open interest was 1,575 bales on the very first day. The trading unit of the cotton futures contract is 25 bales and price quote for the contract is ex-warehouse Rajkot excluding all taxes, duties, levies and charge. The contract will be compulsory delivery with physical delivery available in multiples of 100 bales.

Tick size of the contract will be Rs 10 a bale and the maximum order size has been fixed at 1,200 bales. The initial margin required to trade will be five per cent or based on SPAN, whichever is higher. The open position limit for a member collectively for all clients has been fixed at 150,000 bales or 15 per cent of the market wide open position, whichever is higher, and for individual clients it is 50,000 bales.

Besides the basis delivery centre at Rajkot, the additional delivery centres are at Jalgaon and Aurangabad in Maharashtra, Kadi (Gujarat), Abohar and Bhatinda in Punjab, Sirsa (Haryana), Burhanpur (Madhya Pradesh), Adilabad and Guntur (Andhra Pradesh).

The cotton futures contract is likely to bring about a large gamut of benefits to all stakeholders of the cotton industry will also help the diverse cotton trade and industry functionaries in managing price risks on their spot and forward transactions in the domestic and export markets, benefiting millions of cotton growers in the country.

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