• Select the Exchange you wish to trade on
• Choose the product type - Futures or Options
• Select the ticker symbol of the scrip you want to trade
• Select the type of trade - Put or Call
• Select the expiry date of your trade
• Choose the strike price in case of Options
• Enter the lot size of your trade
• Calculate your SPAN Margin

For delivery contracts leverage is given as per Span + exposure as mandated by exchanges, 5paisa offer 10X margins on intraday option writing on expiry and 5x on normal days.

After a stock is purchased NO benefit of those purchased shares as collateral for additional margins will be provided to the client up to T+2.

5paisa will check whether you have cleared the debit generated from buying the shares or you have created a forward pledge for availing margin funding facility. Only after either of the condition is met, the shares will be transferred to the Demat account and will be available for margin benefit. The client will have to follow the Margin pledge process prescribed by CDSL to avail of the margin benefit. If none of the conditions is met, then shares will remain in the Client unpaid securities account (CUSA) and will be sold on T+7 day.

Sale proceeds from options can only be used for purchasing another options contract. It cannot be used for buying any other stock in the cash segment or futures contract.

Profits being generated out of intraday trading, though getting credited in the ledger will not be available as Net Available Margin up to T+2 Day.

The margin blocked over and above the SPAN to cushion for any MTM losses is exposure margin.

Whereas,

Total margin = (SPAN + Exposure) - Premium received-Hedge benefit Margin required to be overnight position using product type as DEL, Margin required to take intraday position would be 50% of Total margin for equity, Commodity and currency using product type as INT.

The Margin is calculated by the software - SPAN (Standard Portfolio Analysis of Risk) which is based on a sophisticated set of algorithms that estimates margin of each derivative position to its worst possible one-day move.