With VPS my friend used to get more margin benefit with cover order.
Banknifty futures 1 lot required around Rs. 7,000 when BNF was trading at around 11,800 .
TSO has stricter margin policy it seems with 40% required even for a Cover Order.
Hello traderite,
There seems to be some misunderstanding. We'd encourage you to check with NOW if this can be done.
Let's take an example,
Value of 1 lot of Banknifty @ 11800 = 11800 x 25 = 295000
Margin % at Rs 7000 /lot = (7000/295000) x 100 = 2.3%
Considering the stop loss is to be 1% below this 2.3%, it'll have to be around 1.3%.
According to NOW team, this can not be done as they have fixed the stoploss % at 2.5-3%.
So if you are looking for margin benefit, yes it'd be much more in case of stock futures.
Currently there's a feature missing in NOW without which we'd not like to start cover orders in stock futures. We've requested NOW to include the same. Once that is done, it'll be launched for stock futures too.