SAMCO RMS Policy

Samco Securities Limited

Member: BSE, NSE, MCX, MSEI, Depository Participant: CDSL.

Risk Management Policy Applicable To All Clients

OBJECTIVE: In capital market risk management is one of the most important aspects to avoid any future financial crisis; it becomes important to manage risks effectively as it not only affects the organization but it also affects their clients. This can be achieved by placing robust system in place and implementation of the same. Especially in the derivatives market, the amount of margin is small relative to the value of the derivatives contract so the transactions are 'leveraged' or 'geared'. Derivatives trading, which is conducted with a relatively small amount of margin, provides the possibility of great profit or loss in comparison with the margin amount. But transactions in derivatives carry a high degree of risk. You should therefore completely understand the following statements before actually trading in derivatives and also trade with caution while taking into account one's circumstances, financial resources, etc. If the prices move against you, you may lose a part of or whole margin amount in a relatively short period of time. Moreover, the loss may exceed the original margin amount.

You must know and appreciate that trading in Equity shares, derivatives contracts or other instruments traded on the Stock Exchange, which have varying element of risk, is generally not an appropriate avenue for someone of limited resources/limited investment and/or trading experience and low risk tolerance. You should therefore carefully consider whether such trading is suitable for you in the light of your financial condition. You should well verse yourself first about the systems, pay ins & pay outs of funds and securities, order types (intraday, carry forward and delivery trades) and other applicable rules and regulations. You should read RDD which is part of account opening document before beginning to trade or invest. In case you trade on Exchanges and suffer adverse consequences or loss, you shall be solely responsible for the same and Samco/Stock exchanges/its Clearing Corporation and/or SEBI shall not be responsible, in any manner whatsoever, for the same and it will not be open for you to take a plea that no adequate disclosure regarding the risks involved was made or that you were not explained the full risk involved by Samco. The client shall be solely responsible for the consequences and no contract can be rescinded on that account. You must acknowledge and accept that there can be no guarantee of profits or no exception from losses while executing orders for purchase and/or sale of a derivative contract being traded on Stock exchanges.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES: Role of Risk Management Department start from client registration like client categorization, daily limit setting, monitoring of daily transactions, margins etc. checking and monitoring of risk at various level and implementation of Risk Policy.

CLIENT CATAGORIZATION: Classification of both existing and new clients into difference risk categories in back office like Low, Medium, High or CSC depending on the various parameters like client identity, background, financial, transactions pattern etc.

EXPOSURE / LIMIT SETTING: Daily limits will be set and updated in RMS software on the basis of available balance / collateral.

MARGINS: In derivative segment upfront margin will be collected as per Exchange requirements. Futures trading involve daily settlement of all positions. Every day the open positions are marked to market based on the closing level of the index / derivatives contract. If the contract has moved against you, you will be required to deposit the amount of loss (notional) which is generally in the range of average historic volatility. This is also called daily settlement price. This amount will have to be paid latest by the next day morning before the commencement of trading. (For Eg a derivative contract worth Rs 100 requires Rs 20 as margin for carried forward trade. The price fluctuates daily, suppose the price rises to Rs 102 for a short position, then the trader has to deposit Rs 2 as margin money next day before the start of market) If you fail to deposit the additional amount by the deadline or if an outstanding debt occurs in your account, SAMCO may liquidate a part of or the whole position or can sell securities to recover the amount. In this case, you will be liable for any losses incurred due to such close-outs. Samco’s margin calculator available on the website is only indicative and for educational purposes, such calculator is in no way substitute to the actual margins required for initiating a position(s).

QUANTUM OF MARGINS: The client shall pay applicable initial margins, withholding margins, special margins or such other margins as are considered necessary by the stock broker or the Exchange or as may be directed by SEBI from time to time as applicable to the segment(s) in which the client trades. The stock broker is permitted in its sole and absolute discretion to collect additional margins (even though not required by the Exchange, Clearing House/Clearing Corporation or SEBI) and the client shall be obliged to pay such margins immediately failing which the position of the client is liable to be squared off at the sole discretion of Samco.

In case of commodity segment many contracts expiry results into delivery transactions/positions, SAMCO do not allow delivery transactions in commodity segment, therefore in case of tender period which starts before certain day of expiry date, client has to square off or roll over his/her positions prior to beginning of tender period, Samco does not allow to take fresh positions in tender periods of any security. If any trade is executed by client in this period and transaction results into delivery client has to pay required full amount and any loss incurred for whatsoever reason on this account shall be to the client’s account.

RISK AND COLLATERAL MANAGEMENT: Samco has an online real time basis risk monitoring system for each client. If on a real time basis, at any time during the day (including pre opening gaps) the losses(mark to market) exceed more than 80% of the client’s total deposits, SAMCO shall initiate the square off of the position of the client on a real time basis without even informing the client. (Eg. A derivative contract worth Rs 100 requires Rs 20 as margin for carried forward trade or lesser if the trade is for intraday, as the case may be, if at any point of time during the day, price fluctuates more than 16% or more, which means that 80% of the deposit amount is wiped out, (i.e. 20 *80/100= 16) Samco RMS team in such cases will square off the position) Such eventuality may be rare but often happens in financial markets and therefore it is not feasible to inform the client about auto square off being undertaken by SAMCO’s RMS team. Such huge volatility should not be construed as normal volatility and such losses have to be replenished immediately otherwise the position will be squared off subject to 80% condition. Clients should not wait for next day to settle such margin calls on the positions on the pretext that this falls under daily settlement process. There is a difference between daily settlement which is nothing but generally average historic volatility and extraordinary volatility which needs to be replenished immediately, daily settlement price can be paid next day morning but losses beyond average historic volatility or in other words extraordinary large loss has to be replenished on an immediate and real time basis otherwise Samco’s RMS team will square off if losses exceed 80% of the deposits at any given time. Such losses shall be of the client and SAMCO in no way will be held responsible. The client therefore in general is advised to maintain more margins than is required by the Exchanges for his/her safety due to such black swan movement (means massive or abnormal volatility either intraday or due to overnight events) in the prices of the securities. Samco shall endeavor to close out the position once 80% losses of the deposits are triggered but, SAMCO in no way, guarantees that the losses will be squared off at such percentage, in reality, it can be more or less. (Eg. Continuing from the above example if the price of derivative contract moves quickly by 20% without giving an opportunity to Samco’s RMS team to square off at Rs 16 i.e. at 80% but eventually the square off happens at Rs 20, then the client is liable to deposit Rs 4 as the loss amount due to adverse price movements)

TRADING RESTRICTIONS: Restrictions in certain Securities shall be done periodically by RMS Team. SAMCO shall from time to time classify a list of securities which are illiquid as per the list of illiquid securities notified on a periodic basis by the Stock Exchanges concerned and / or based on such internal criteria as SAMCO may deem fit. SAMCO reserves the right to refuse execution of any transaction requests of the Client on such illiquid securities or to reduce the open market interests of the Client in such securities. SAMCO also reserves the right not to allow any trades or transactions in respect of certain securities or segments or orders/requests which may be below / above certain value / quantity as may be decided by SAMCO from time to time. Trading in Illiquid Scrip may be restricted as per management directives. RMS Team will closely monitor such type of transactions. Such list of illiquid stocks is updated on the website. In F&O segment no new position will be permitted in Ban Period securities. Penalties if any due to such transactions if initiated by the client shall be borne by the client solely.

ONLINE PAYMENT: Samco shall give credit to client accounts when it receives the payment advice from IMPS, Payment Gateway, NEFT, RTGS and cheques. Credit limits will be given only on confirmation which generally takes time because Samco has no control over banks or payment gateways. Delays if any in receiving payments by Samco and thereby causing a consequential loss to the client either due to Samco’s RMS auto square off policy or otherwise shall be sole responsibility of the client, Samco in no way shall be held responsible for the delay of any third party payment systems. Samco shall not process payouts on bank holidays although exchanges may remain open for trading. All ledger debits are liable for payment of interests to Samco in addition to any penalties that are levied by the exchanges.

SAMCO's RIGHT TO SQUARE OFF: Without prejudice to SAMCO's other rights (including the right to refer a matter to arbitration), in the event of the Client failing to maintain/supply applicable margin money required to sustain the outstanding market positions of the Client, SAMCO shall be entitled, at its option and liberty, to liquidate/ close out all outstanding market positions or any part thereof such that the outstanding market positions are either zeroed out or reduced to an extent where available margin covers the market positions remaining after such square off. The Client understands and accepts that authority of SAMCO to square off outstanding market positions of the Client in the event of the Client failing to furnish margin money immediately on demand is carte blanche qua the entire outstanding position and the Client shall not, as a matter of right, be entitled to reduction of the outstanding positions in stages in order that positions to the extent of available margin are retained in the Client's account. SAMCO may also sell off all or any securities of the Client lying with SAMCO as collateral or otherwise, for any amounts due by the Client and adjust the proceeds of such liquidation/close out against the client's liabilities/obligations to SAMCO. Any and all losses and financial charges on account of such liquidation/closing-out shall be charged to and borne by the client. Such liquidation/ close out may be without any prior reference or notice to the client. Client shall keep and hold SAMCO indemnified and harmless from any loss arising out of such closing out/squaring off. Such liquidation or close out of positions shall apply to any segment in which the Client does business with SAMCO. It shall be the duty of the client to be self vigilant and adequately replenish/deposit the margins and mark to market losses on a immediately basis which are calculated on a real time basis by Samco

SYSTEM/NETWORK CONGECTION RISK: Trading on the Exchange is in electronic mode, based on satellite/ leased line communications, combination of technologies and computer systems to place and route orders. Thus, there exists a possibility of communication failure or system problems or slow or delayed response from system or trading halt, or any such other problem/glitch including delayed or missed OTPs whereby not being able to establish access to the trading system/network, which may be beyond the control of and may result in delay in processing or not processing buy or sell orders either in part or in full. You are cautioned to note that although these problems may be temporary in nature, but when you have outstanding open positions or unexecuted orders, these represent a risk because of your obligations to settle all executed transactions. The losses if any arising out of such systems/network risk shall be of the client alone.

The Client shall not have any claim against the Exchange or the Stock broker on account of any suspension, interruption, non- availability or malfunctioning of the Samco trading system or Service or the Exchange's service or systems or non-execution of his orders due to any link/system failure at the Client/Stock brokers/Exchange end for any reason beyond the control of the Samco/Exchanges

Charts are formed using limited tick data (multi cast data) whereas the number of ticks recorded on the exchange are tick by tick (unicast) which are far more higher thus there may arise a perceived difference on the price action observed on the chart and that of actual price action on the exchange. Samco has zero control on such data feeds and is totally dependent on external sources to receive such feeds. Therefore charts may not truly capture all the price actions transpiring on the exchanges.

POWER OF ATTORNEY: Clients who have opened their trading accounts online are expected to send the POA in hard copy for demat account within 30 days to Samco’s office otherwise Samco shall at its discretion stop OTP facility for selling the shares on delivery basis and the client in that case will have to then manually (or courier) come to Samco’s office to deposit DIS (delivery instruction slip)

DORMANT CLIENTS RMS: Team will update the dormant client list (inactive from more than 12 months) & restrict their trading rights. Activation of such clients will be done as per Dormant Client policy.

PAY-IN & PAYOUT OF FUNDS & SECURITIES: Third party pay-in of funds & securities will not be accepted. Same way payout of shares and fund will be directly done to client account only. No securities belonging to one client be used/transferred for other client or for Own purpose. Securities sold by client on intraday basis which for whatsoever reasons are not squared off, then such losses, on account of price difference between the selling price and auction purchase price shall be on the account of the client alone and Samco shall not, in any way, be responsible for such losses. Client initiating buy today and sell tomorrow strategy is prone to security shortage risks which eventually, if any, will result into losses on account of difference in auction price and client’s original trade price, the losses arising on such transactions shall be of the client’s account and Samco in no way is responsible for any such losses.

Detailed Explanation about Margin Policies and Limits

Margin Limits and Policies are a very critical point for consideration for every Trader and Investor in the markets. We at SAMCO in this post have tried to detail the margin policies that shall be available under different product categories. We have tried to be transparent and upfront in our risk management approach however Mr. Markets may require us to change our policies based on its mood swings.

Broadly, the entire risk management policy is designed for 3 types of trading patterns and segments

Equities
Derivatives – Futures
Derivatives – Options

1. Trading in Equities i.e. Shares Listed on NSE/BSE

All market participants can trade in the Equities or Cash Market Segment on the NSE/BSE using the following Product Types with SAMCO

a. For Intra-day Trades

Intraday trades can trade using 2 product types

i. MIS – (Margin Intraday Square-off)

In this MIS product type, additional leverage is available for intraday trades since there is lower risk to positions especially since positions are not carried forward and therefore there is no overnight market risk. Clients will be required to chose MIS as a product type while placing their orders in the SAMCO Trader. By selecting MIS as a product type, leverage upto 5x will be available depending on the liquidity of the stock. A total of 400+ stocks are available for trading in the MIS product type. However, one thing to remember is that all orders in the MIS product type should be compulsorily squared off before 3.14 pm failing to do which will require the SAMCO RMS to square-off positions at 3.15 pm.

To see the full list of eligible stocks and their corresponding multipliers, check the SAMCO Margin Calculator on our website.

ii. CO – (Cover Orders)

For traders requiring even more intraday leverage than provided by the MIS product, a unique feature available with the SAMCO Trader is Cover Orders. When you select the Cover Orders as a product, you will be compulsorily required to enter a stop loss for your trade. In simple terms, a cover order is a order with a stop loss. This enables us to calculate the maximum risk to your positions and accordingly charge lower margins for intraday trades. More often than not, the margin levied in cover orders shall be [(Trade Price – Stop Loss Price) * Quantity]. A point to remember is that these orders too will be required to be squared up before 3.15 pm failing which they will be squared up by the SAMCO RMS Team.
Product types MIS, CO & BO shall continue to be available without Additional margin and trading in all long (BUY) stock options with monthly expiry will be stopped at 1:00 pm on Expiry day and squared off after 2:00 pm which are outstanding as MIS.

b. Delivery Trades

To execute delivery trades with SAMCO, you will need to use the product type – CNC i.e. Cash and Carry. As the name suggests, you will need to completely pay up the margin for delivery trades upfront prior to executing a trade. In case you have Rs. 50,000 in your account, you will be able to buy delivery of only Rs. 50,000 by using the CNC product type. Also, whilst selling in the CNC product type, you will be required to have the stock either in your SAMCO DP account or the SAMCO Client Beneficiary Account. You will not be permitted to sell stock which is not a part of the SAMCO ecosystem. This is to ensure stocks are sold only when stocks are available to be delivered to the exchanges as obligation.

Why do CNC trades require 100% Margin upfront? When stocks are purchased and carried forward, the price risk due to overnight events is extremely high. We have often seen stocks reacting to news events with 20% gap up/ gap down movements. In such cases, its best to have un-leveraged positions which require 100% margin.

An important point to note is that positions can be converted from MIS to CNC and vice versa at any point of time subject to margin availability. For instance, if you had purchased 1,000 shares of Reliance @ Rs. 900/share in MIS product and blocked Rs. 1,80,000 in margin (say 20%) and decided at 3 pm that you wanted to carry forward this as an CNC trade, all you’ll need to do is go to the SAMCO trader and convert your position from MIS to CNC. However, this conversion would be permitted only if you had Rs. 7,20,000 (CNC Margin difference of 80%) available in your account as free balance.

c. GTT/ Good Till Triggered Orders

What is the GTT feature?

GTT stands for Good Till Triggered. GTT orders are orders that are valid till cancelled and allow you to place buy or sell orders at a predetermined limit price. These orders are executed if the market price of the stock reaches your specified price also called as Trigger Price.

A GTT is a trigger which places a limit order (at the limit price selected by you) as and when the trigger price, selected by you, is met or breached. In case the trigger price is breached during a particular day and the limit price selected is not exactly met on the same day, all such orders will be cancelled at the end of such trading day session. The trigger set on GTT is valid only once, if the order is placed and is not executed for any reason, the GTT order has to be replaced again.

GTT can be used only for CNC, NRML and BTPT type orders in the Equity Cash segment on NSE & BSE and NRML type orders in the Equity Derivatives segment on NSE. It can also be used for NRML orders in currency segment of NSE and commodity segment of MCX.

If the Last Traded Price (LTP) of a scrip jumps higher than the trigger price selected, or if the LTP opens at a gap up or gap down breaching the selected trigger price, an order would be placed at the selected limit price. GTT Order in cash segment will not be triggered in pre-open markets. They can only be triggered during normal market hours.

Terms of Usage of GTT feature

These Terms of Use govern the usage of services of the GTT Feature. By agreeing to use this GTT Feature terms, you agree to have read and understood these clauses, conditions, the modalities of how the GTT Feature clearly works, and Samco Securities’ policies, procedures and risk disclosure documents.

Definitions

1.1 “Good Till Trigger Feature” or “GTT Feature” shall be defined as per Clause 2.

1.2 “Last Traded Price” or “LTP” is the last traded price at which a stock/scrip was traded on the Exchange.

1.3 “Limit Order” or limit order shall be defined as per the NSE “Order Conditions” which can be found. As per NSE, a Limit Order shall mean “an order that allows the price to be specified while entering the order into the system.”

1.4 “RMS” or “Risk Management System” is the system in place at Samco Securities which monitors all positions of Samco Securities clients on a real time basis and sees to it that clients maintain margins with respect to all positions/positional trades & that Samco Securities maintains margins at a broker/trading member level with the clearing houses. The RMS also constantly vets each order, on a pre-trade basis, placed by a client towards the exchanges to see whether the order is as per Samco Securities’ risk management policies and procedures, and whether the client has placed such order with sufficient cash balances, holdings and as per the rules set by Samco Securities and the Exchanges. The RMS continuously enforces Samco Securities’ terms, policies & procedures, by enforcing limits of margins/squaring off positions with respect to each client, as per the risk management policies followed by Samco Securities. You, as a client, are required to always be updated with Samco Securities’ risk management policies, terms, and procedures.

1.5 “Trigger Condition” shall mean the criteria and conditions entered by You, which if met, the corresponding limit order entered by you will be placed on the exchange. The below set of conditions, not being limited to, are required to be selected by You:

A Trigger Price (defined as per Clause 1.6)

A Limit Price: the price selected by you, which places a limit order at the price selected by you after the Trigger Price is met or breached.

Type of order: You will be able to select only limit order as a type of order for your using the GTT Feature.

1.6 “Trigger Price” shall mean the price entered by you to trigger a limit order and place it on the exchange while using the GTT feature. This price selected by You may either be:

• The price used to trigger a buy order in case it is being placed for stock/scrips that are not in Your current existing holdings;

• The price used to trigger a selling/target order in case it is being placed at a higher price than the current market price, for stock/scrips that are already existing in your current holdings;

• The price used to trigger a selling/stop-loss order in case it is being placed at a lower price than the current market price, for stock/scrips that already exist in your current holdings.

• All prices entered by You for Your Trigger Price shall be tracked against the Last Traded Price (LTP) of the stock/scrip.

1.7 “You” or “Your” or “Yourself” shall mean you, the client, having a trading and demat account i.e. a Client ID, with Samco Securities and using the GTT Feature placement services from your trading account terminal through either StockNote Web or the StockNote Mobile Application.

GTT Feature as a Service

“Good Till Trigger Feature” or “GTT Feature” or “GTT” is a feature which allows You to set certain Trigger Conditions; such that, as and when such Trigger Conditions are met, a limit order as per the Trigger Conditions set by You would be placed on the Exchanges.

By using the GTT Feature, there is no actual order placed, until and unless the Trigger Conditions, as set by You are met. Samco Securities stores the Trigger Conditions, as set by You, and places a limit order to the Exchange as and when the Trigger Conditions are met.

At all times while placing GTT, You are required to maintain sufficient cash balance & sufficient quantity of holdings of the respective scrip in Your trading account, such that; all Your GTT’s may be successfully triggered, as per the Trigger Conditions set by You. In case there is insufficient cash balance or insufficient quantity of holdings with respect to your GTTs at any point of time in your trading and demat account, your GTTs may be cancelled at the sole discretion of Samco Securities & the Samco Securities RMS.

There are various checks that the RMS at Samco Securities does on a pre-trade basis as and when clients request orders to be placed, but before orders are placed at the Exchanges. All such checks are done as per the rules of the Exchanges, SEBI & Samco Securities’ internal risk management policies and procedures.

The Call & Trade feature at Samco Securities shall not be allowed for clients using the GTT Feature. We have only the Single trigger feature of GTT: A single trigger price entered by You, which may be used to trigger either a target order (if LTP selected is higher than the current market price) or a stop loss order (if LTP selected is lower than the current market price)

Orders may not be placed, may be rejected or cancelled, may not be executed, even if Trigger Conditions are met, as per the GTT Feature, in the below mentioned market timings/conditions:

• In case the Trigger Price is breached during any day (which may be caused due to a gap up or gap down opening at market opening), an order shall be placed at the limit price selected by you and shall be cancelled at the end of such trading session; in case such limit price is not met during the day;

• All GTT’s are cancelled after 31st December, 2099 days from placing such request in case they are not triggered as per the Trigger Conditions;

• In case there is a change in exchange series or any corporate action, such as; splits, bonuses, dividends of extraordinary nature (above 5% of market price), merger, reverse mergers, amalgamations, takeover, delisting, rights issue, etc. where there is a significant impact/change in the scrip price, the GTT may be cancelled at the sole discretion of Samco Securities, 1 day prior to the Ex-date of such corporate action effect taking place on the stock price. The action of cancelling such an order request through the GTT Feature shall be at the sole discretion of Samco Securities and Samco Securities RMS;

• Order requests being placed through the GTT Feature, once the Trigger Price is breached and such limit price selected is outside the circuit limits of the particular scrip;

• GTT orders can be set on scrips falling under the Call Auction list by NSE. However, they will only be placed when triggered if the scrip is out of the Call Auction list, else the order will be cancelled.

A single GTT is a trigger which is valid for only one time, after a limit order is placed. In case a limit order is placed due to the Trigger Price being breached or for any other reason on any particular day, but the limit order is not exactly met on the same day, such GTTs will be required to be placed once again.

Once a GTT is triggered for a derivative contract, if the order is placed outside of the contract's "execution range" it may be cancelled the by the exchange. Any cost You may incur due to such cancellation of an order placed outside the execution range is liable to be paid by You.

If a GTT is triggered for an option contract that isn't allowed for trading by Samco Securities, the order may be rejected.

The onus of checking for a pending GTT for a scrip before placing any new order(s) for the same scrip from the order window, positions page, or via call and trade.

GTTs for derivative contracts are only valid for the lifetime of the contract. Pending GTTs for a contract will be invalidated one day after the expiry of the contract.

Charges for Usage of GTT Feature

No additional charges will be levied for the usage of GTTs. Normal brokerage will apply to the order once the GTT is triggered.

This pricing is subject to change at the sole discretion of Samco Securities after giving sufficient prior notice to customers.

Risks, Non execution & Applicable law

This GTT order does not assure execution of an order and includes/involves all risks with respect to Internet Based Trading, and risks with respect to trading in the Capital Markets segments will extend to trading using the GTT orders as well.

Please make sure to once again read and understand the terms, conditions and points under the Equity Annexure & Risk Disclosure Document, which You have already agreed to while opening Your trading account with Samco Securities.

Samco Securities is a stock broking entity registered with SEBI under the registration number INZ000002535, and a member of NSE & BSE. Therefore, all rules and regulations prescribed by SEBI and the Exchanges would have to strictly be followed by You while placing instructions through Samco Securities. All other laws and regulations as per the Republic of India would be applicable.

GTT triggers will be triggered only based on the live last traded price it is tracking on the exchange. When using GTT with limit price, there is no guaranteed execution as the LTP could have changed when the order is placed post trigger.

No Liability for Any Lost Opportunity or Non Execution

Samco Securities, at all times, bears no liability towards You for any reason whatsoever with respect to using the GTT Feature; including but not limited to, non execution of any order using the GTT Feature / either leg of the order, any opportunity loss for non execution of such orders/trades, any cancellation or non placement of any orders, and any such other claims which may arise from You with respect to using the GTT Feature.

Subject to Change

This Terms of Usage and the Service of Samco Securities placing orders under the GTT Feature, may be removed/modified/replaced at any point of time without providing any prior notification to You. It is Your responsibility to review this Terms of Usage every time You use the GTT Feature.

2. Trading in Derivatives – Futures (Equity Derivatives, Currency derivatives, Commodity derivatives and Interest Rate Futures Derivatives)

For trading in the futures contracts in the derivatives segment of the exchanges i.e. NSE-F&O, BSE-F&O, NSE-CDS, MCXSX-CDS and MCX, traders will be required to use the following product types with SAMCO

a. For Intra-day Trades

Intraday trades can trade using 2 product types

i. MIS – (Margin Intraday Square-off)

In this MIS product type, additional leverage is available for intraday trades since there is lower risk to positions especially since positions are not carried forward and therefore there is no overnight market risk. Clients will be required to chose MIS as a product type while placing their orders in the SAMCO Trader.

However, one thing to remember is that all orders in the MIS product type should be compulsorily squared off before cut-off time failing to do which will require the SAMCO RMS to square-off positions.

The stipulated cut-off time for the different exchange segments are as follows:

Equity Derivatives (NSE-F&O, BSE F&O) – 3.15 pm
Currency Derivatives (NSE-CDS, BSE-CDS, MCXSX-CDS) – 4.45 pm
Commodity Derivatives (MCX) – 30 Minutes prior to market close

The margin for MIS trades will be charged as a percentage of NRML Trades which shall be as follows

For Equity Index Futures (NIFTY, Bank Nifty and others) – 75% of NRML margin
For Equity Stock Futures – 75% of NRML Margin
For Currency Futures – 75% of NRML Margin
For Commodity Futures – 75% of NRML Margin

ii. CO – (Cover Orders)

For traders requiring even more intraday leverage than provided by the MIS product, a unique feature available with the SAMCO Trader is Cover Orders. When you select the Cover Orders as a product, you will be compulsorily required to enter a stop loss for your trade. In simple terms, a cover order is a order with a stop loss. This enables us to calculate the maximum risk to your positions and accordingly charge lower margins for intraday trades. More often than not, the margin levied in cover orders shall be [(Trade Price – Stop Loss Price) * Quantity].

The leverage available in a Cover order is higher than in MIS and NRML products.

Cover orders are available for all the segments i.e. equity, currency and commodity derivatives however the margin applicable varies across segments.

b. Carry Forward Trades

To execute carry forward trades with SAMCO i.e. trades that you’d like to carry overnight, you will need to use the product type – NRML i.e. Normal. As the name suggests, you will need to completely pay up the normal margin as required by the exchanges (SPAN + Exposure margin) for carry forward trades upfront prior to executing a trade. In case you have Rs. 50,000 in your account, and you want to execute a trade to buy 100 units of NIFTY Futures @ 8,500 and the applicable normal margin is 5%, then Rs. 42,500 (5% * 8,50,000) from your account will get blocked once your trade is executed.

When you execute a trade using NRML product type, you will be permitted to carry your positions till the expiry of the contract.

To calculate the margin applicable on your positions, you can visit the F&O Margin calculator on the SAMCO Website.

3. Trading in Derivatives – Options (Equity & Index Options and Currency Options)

For trading in the options contracts in the derivatives segment of the exchanges, traders will be required to use the following product types with SAMCO

a. For going Long options i.e. Purchasing Options

When you buy options, SAMCO provides no additional leverage. So if you are buying calls or puts of any contract, the premium required to buy them has to be available in your account with SAMCO. You can trade options either with product type as NRML or MIS, but since there is no additional leverage provided if you use product type as MIS, it is recommended to use the NRML product type which will allow you to carry the positions overnight and not MIS since all MIS positions would get squared off before the close of markets.

b. For going Short options i.e. Selling Options

Selling options requires margin to be blocked and the premium received from the short options is credited to your trading account.

You can short option either using the product type as NRML or MIS. To calculate the margin applicable on your positions, you can visit the F&O Margin calculator on the SAMCO Website.

The margin for MIS trades will be charged as a percentage of NRML Trades for short options which shall be as follows

For Equity Index Options (NIFTY, Bank Nifty and others) – 75% of NRML margin

For Equity Stock Options – 75% of NRML Margin
For Currency Options – 75% of NRML Margin

The margins displayed in the margin calculators are for information purposes only and are only indicative in nature and do not constitute the final margin as would be levied by the exchanges. Clients should maintain some extra margins in their accounts to manage initial margins and marked to market losses, if any. SAMCO reserve the rights to square off all client positions in case of margin shortfall and in case of an erosion of more than 80% of balance available due to mark to market losses without any prior notice. In case of more than 80% erosion of balance by way of mark to market losses due to price fluctuation, SAMCO also reserves the right to restrict additional exposure and can place the clients account in square off mode only.

We hope this Section clearly solves all your questions on SAMCO’s margin policies.

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