NSE Quotes – Different types of Margins/Volatility

As you all know there are uncertainties in the movement of share prices. These uncertainties may arise from global economical, local political or economical conditions. When there are uncertainties there are risks associated with them.

You need to pay some amount of money upfront to your broker to buy or short sell securities. This amount is called margin. You will need to pay the remaining amount on T+2 day. Margin payments ensure that each investor is serious about buying or selling shares.

Let’s take an example. An investor buys 100 shares of Infosys at Rs2000 per share. The total amount is Rs 2L. Let’s say the investor paid a margin amount of Rs30,000 to buy those shares. If the share price falls by Rs500 on the next day, the notional loss for the investor will be 500 * 100 = Rs 50,000, which is greater than the margin amount paid. So there is a chance that the investor may not pay the remaining amount. The broker is at risk in this case as there is an obligation for him to pay that amount to stock exchange. Read more

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NSE Quotes – Value at Risk (VaR)

This section needs a detailed explanation. VaR is computed using exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) methodology. Based on statistical analysis, 94% weight is given to volatility on ‘T-1’ day and 6 % weight is given to T day return [Please read ‘NSE Quotes – Different types of Margins/Volatility’ for clear understanding of volatility].

T day return is computed as LN(Today’s Close Price/Yesterday’s Close price)

Take the volatility calculated on T-1 th day and apply the following formula to get T day’s volatility.

Square Root of [0.94 * T -1 day’s volatility * T -1 day’s volatility + 0.06 * T day’s return * T day’s return ]

Take an example to calculate VaR.

Share of XYZ Ltd

Volatility on July 1, 2008 = 0.0314

Closing price on June 30, 2008 = Rs. 360

Closing price on July 1, 2008 = Rs. 330 Read more

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NSE Quotes – Extreme Loss Rate

Extreme Loss rate considers the losses that could occur outside the coverage of VaR.

The Extreme loss margin for a stock is the higher of the following

· 1.5 times the standard deviation of daily LN returns of the stock price in the last six months i.e. 1.5 times Volatilty in the last 6 months.

· 5% of the value of the position (Buy or Sell)

Extreme Loss rate considers wider range of price values (6 months’ prices). The minimum value for this margin is 5% for any stock.

This margin rate is fixed at the beginning of every month, by taking the price data on a rolling basis for the past six months.

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NSE Quotes – Applicable Margin Rate

Under Value at Risk section of NSE Quotes the following fields are available.

Security VAR: This is the VaR of the security calculated as we discussed in ‘NSE Quotes – Value at Risk (VaR)’

Index VAR: It is the VaR of index. It is applicable only for Group II and Group III stocks.

VaR Margin: It is the higher of Security VaR and Index VaR. Usually the higher of the values is given under respective fields and the other one is not provided. This is simply equal to the value available either under Security VaR or Index VaR fields.

Extreme Loss Rate: It is the volatility value that obtained by considering last six months prices. Please read the relevant article for details.

Adhoc Margin: It’s the other margins that are applicable for a particular security other than VaR and Extreme Loss rate. Read more

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NSE Quotes - Security Wise Delivery Position

Under Security-wise Delivery Position section of NSE website three fields are available.

Quantity Traded: It is the total number of shares of the company traded on that particular day or till that point of time. This number is very important because if there is any good news about the future of the company there will be lot of trading in that counter. This number would be high because of excessive speculations in the future of the company.

Deliverable Quantity: This gives information of how many shares are bought for delivery (T+2 day settlement) out of the total traded quantity.

% of Deliverable Quantity to Traded Quantity: It’s the ratio of Deliverable Quantity to Quantity Traded. Higher value of this ratio is a good signal for that scrip because it indicates that most of the buyers are expecting the price of the share to go up. On the other hand if this ratio is very low then we can attribute this effect to excessive intra day trading because of expectations of high price volatility and/or manipulation of the stock price by some traders.

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