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Futures on 91-day Government of India Treasury-Bill (T- Bill)

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..... . 3. The details in terms of product design and risk management framework for futures on 91-day Government of India Treasury-Bill (T- Bill) are as given under Annexure I. 4. This circular is issued in exercise of the powers conferred under Section 11 (1) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act 1992, read with Section 10 of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 to protect the interests of investors in securities and to promote the development of, and to regulate the securities market. 5. The circular shall come into force from the date of the circular. 6. This circular is available on SEBI website at www.sebi.gov.in., under the category Derivatives- Circulars . Yours faithfully, Sujit Prasad .....

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..... The expiry / last trading day / final settlement day for the contract would be the last Wednesday of the expiry month. If any expiry day is a trading holiday, then the expiry/ last trading day/ final settlement day would be the previous trading day. 1.11 Final Contract Settlement value ₹ 2000 * (100 0.25 * y f ) (Here y f is weighted average discount yield obtained from weekly auction of 91-day T-Bill on the day of expiry). The methodology of computation and dissemination of the weighted average discount yield would be publicly disclosed by RBI. 1.12 Initial margin The Initial Margin requirement shall be based on a worst case loss of a portfolio of an individual client across various scenarios of price cha .....

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..... The exponential moving average method would be used to obtain the volatility estimate every day. The estimate at the end of time period t ( ydt) is estimated using the volatility estimate at the end of the previous time period. i.e. as at the end of t-1 time period ( ydt-1), and the return (rydt) observed in the futures market during the time period t. The formula would be as under: ( ydt ) 2 = ( ydt-1 ) 2 + (1 - ) (r ydt ) 2 where is a parameter which determines how rapidly volatility estimates change. The value of is fixed at 0.94. i. ydt (sigma) means the standard deviation of daily logarithmic returns of discount yield of 91-day T-Bill futures at time t. ii. Th .....

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..... be equal to 2.7 %. 1.16 Position limits i. Client Level: The gross open positions of the client across all contracts should not exceed 6% of the total open interest or ₹ 300 crores whichever is higher. The Exchange will disseminate alerts whenever the gross open position of the client exceeds 3% of the total open interest at the end of the previous day s trade. ii. Trading Member Level: The gross open positions of the trading member across all contracts should not exceed 15% of the total open interest or ₹ 1000 crores whichever is higher. iii. Clearing Member Level: No separate position limit is prescribed at the level of clearing member. However, the clearing member shall ensure that his own trading positi .....

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