Market structure & regulation
What is Market hours?
Also called: NSE timings, Trading hours
Hinglish mein padhein: Share market ka time kya hai?
NSE and BSE equity markets trade from 9:15 am to 3:30 pm IST, Monday to Friday, except exchange holidays, with a pre-open session from 9:00 am.
From 9:00 to 9:08 am orders are collected for the pre-open auction, 9:08 to 9:12 am they are matched to discover the opening price, and normal trading starts at 9:15 am.
After 3:30 pm the closing price is calculated as a volume-weighted average of the last 30 minutes. A special one-hour Muhurat trading session is held on Diwali.
Related terms
- Pre-open sessionThe 15-minute auction before normal trading (9:00–9:15 am) in which the exchange discovers each stock's opening price.
- Closing priceOn NSE the official closing price is the volume-weighted average price of the last 30 minutes of trading, not the last trade.
- Muhurat tradingA special, symbolic one-hour trading session held on Diwali evening to mark the start of the Hindu new financial year, Samvat.