Analysis of equity derivatives trading in India

Making money has never been easier and investors can make more money by investing in various types of financial instruments through stock exchanges. But these instruments involve high volatility as well as high intensity of risk. This leads to introduction of such instruments which can hedge the risk of investors and assure the investors about the price of asset for a future date, such instruments are popularly known as derivatives. So, derivatives are the financial instrument which derives their value from the price and other related variables (expiry date) of the underlying assets. Underlying assets may be commodity, financial assets, currency and indices as well. This paper analyses the derivatives product and their growth traded in equity derivative segment.