MCX shares soar over 4% on withdrawing additional margin on gold, silver futures; all you need to know

At around 2:14 pm, the stock was trading 1.59% higher at ₹2,378.60 per equity share.

The scrip has declined nearly 3% in the past week and 2% over the month. On a year-to-date basis, however, it has advanced 8%.

While the share hit a 52-week high of ₹2,705 per unit on January 29, 2026, it touched a year’s low of ₹881.63 per unit on March 11, 2025

In a circular issued during post-market hours on Wednesday, the domestic commodities derivatives exchange notified investors that it was withdrawing additional margins levied on gold and silver futures on February 5.

It withdrew the additional margin of 3% levied on all gold futures contracts and 7% on all silver contracts, effective February 19.

“Additional Margin of 3% levied in Gold Futures (all contracts of all variants) and 7% levied in Silver Futures (all contracts of all variants) shall be withdrawn with effect from Thursday, February 19th, 2026,” MCX said in the statement.

This comes after the MCX, in a separate circular dated February 4, levied an additional margin of 4.5% on silver futures of all variants and 1% on gold futures of all variants to mitigate systemic risk, coming into effect on February 5.

Over and above the margin change effective on February 5, it had also levied an additional 2.5% margin on silver futures and 2% on gold futures contracts, effective from Friday, February 6.

With the latest circular, this additional margin levy was reversed.

Gold and silver futures

Gold futures for expiry in April advanced as much as ₹1,434 or 0.91% to an intraday high of ₹1,57,185 per 10 grams on the MCX on Thursday.

At the time of writing, the safe-haven metal contract stood at ₹1,56,777 per 10 grams, reflecting a ₹1,016 or 0.65% increase.

Similarly, silver futures for March delivery surged as much as ₹3,995 or 1.63% to the day’s peak of ₹2,48,263 per kilogram on the MCX.

The white metal contract was trading at ₹2,47,935 per kilogram, up by ₹3,667 or 1.50% at the time of writing.

MCX has a total market capitalisation of ₹60,716.11 crore, as of February 19, 2026, according to data on the NSE.