What is the margin blocking percentage during the end-of-expiry week for physical settlement of stock option contracts?
For physical settlement towards the end of the expiry week in stock options, margin blocking happens as below:
- E-4day==10% of VAR ELM & Adhoc margin if any
- E-3 day== 25% of VAR ELM & Adhoc margin if any
- E-2 day== 40% of VAR ELM & Adhoc margin if any
- E-1 DAY==70% of VAR ELM & Adhoc margin if any
- E-Day==100% of VAR ELM & Adhoc margin if any
Note: 'E' refers to Expiry here. So, E-4 means 4 days before Expiry date
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