Trading turnover logs fresh high, rises 2x in a year

The Indian equity market clo­cked record average daily turnover (ADTV) in both the cash and derivatives segments in Feb­ruary amid a spike in vola­tility. The ADTV for the cash segment for both the exch­a­n­ges combined came at Rs 1.27 tri­llion, while the same for the de­rivatives or the futures and op­t­ions (F and O) segment stood at Rs 483 trillion in the previous month. The volumes for both cash and derivatives have almost doubled from a year ago on the back of rising retail participation in the world’s fourth largest equity market.