The country’s top five commodity exchanges — MCX, NCDEX, NMCE, ACE and ICEX — will open for ‘muhurat trading’ session for 2.30 hours on the day of Diwali.
The commodity bourses have fixed muhurat trading on November 13 from 5.30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in all commodities, the exchanges said in their separate circulars.
The pre-open session will start from 5.15 p.m. on the day of Diwali and client code modification would be allowed between 8-8.15 pm, they said.
The trading time will be same for domestic traded commodities and for global commodities such as bullion, metals, crude, polymers and carbon credits, they added.
The total turnover of five national exchanges stood at Rs 7,07,657 crore during the first fortnight of October.