Inaugurated on November 10, 2003, the Multi Commodity As of March 31, 2008, a total

of 56 commodities are traded on MCX,

Exchange of India Ltd (MCX) is a demutualised commodity which recorded an average
daily turnover of over Rs. 10,283 crore in
exchange with permanent recognition from the Government of fiscal 2007-08. Our total
trading turnover during this financial year
India to facilitate online trading, clearing and settlement operations was Rs. 3,125,959.10
crore, which worked out to a market share of
for commodity futures markets across the country. 77% in terms of the total value of
trades on all domestic commodity
exchanges.
Among the world’s top 10 commodity exchanges, MCX ranks no. 1
in silver, no. 2 in natural gas, and no. 3 in gold, crude oil, and copper For domestic
commodities with large deliverables, MCX's
futures trading in terms of number of contracts traded in 2007, transparent electronic
platform enables anonymous trades leading
according to data published in the respective websites of such to efficient price
discovery.
exchanges. In addition to being accredited with ISO 9001:2000 for
quality standards, MCX also has the distinction of achieving the ISO
For globally-traded commodities, MCX's platform enables domestic
27001:2005 certification, the global benchmark for information
participants to trade in these commodities in Indian currency. Also,
security management systems.
MCX's extended evening trade facility leverages India's strategic
position between the time zones of Japan and the West to enable
MCX launched India's first real-time composite commodity futures domestic participants
to take positions on the basis of price
index: COMDEX. This index encompasses futures contracts drawn movements in the
international commodity exchanges.
on commodity segments such as metals, energy and agricultural
products traded on MCX. We have also launched several other
indices including: MCX-Agri (agricultural commodities index), MCX-
Energy (energy commodities index), MCX-Metal (metal
commodities index).
We have also launched weather indices -- RAINDEXMUM (Mumbai),
RAINDEXIND (Indore), and RAINDEXJAI (Jaipur) -- which track the
progress of monsoon in the respective geographic locations.
Through our alliances with global commodity exchanges, e.g., New
York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), London Metal Exchange (LME),
Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM), LIFFE Administration and
Management, Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), and Bursa Malaysia