The Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX), the largest commodity trading bourse in the country, faced technical glitch on Tuesday, 28 October 2025, leading to a delay in the commencement of trading.
Initially, trading on MCX was scheduled to begin at 10:30 AM instead of the usual opening time of 9:00 AM. However, it has been delayed further.
Update at 12:35 PM – “The commencement of trading is delayed due to a technical issue. Trading will start from DR site. The time of commencement of trading will be informed to market participants. Inconvenience is regretted,” a message on MCX website said.
The bourse did not specify the cause or nature of the issue, but according to the statement, MCX will begin commodity trading from Disaster Recovery site. The exchange also did not inform about the time when the trading will begin.
MCX Timing
The normal trading session on MCX is from 9:00 AM to 11:30 PM, extending to 11:55 PM during daylight savings. Agro-commodities trading time on MCX is from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
Is MCX Open Today?
Yes, MCX is open for trading today. However, due to the technical snag, trading has been halted and normal MCX timing for trade has been delayed.
MCX is India’s largest commodity derivatives exchange, accounting for about 98% of the market share in commodity futures trading by value. The bourse facilitates trading across a broad range of commodity contracts, including gold, silver, energy, base metals, and agricultural commodities.
The technical issue hit MCX a day after the bourse launched options contracts on the MCX iCOMDEX Bullion Index (MCX BULLDEX). The options contracts became effective today, October 27.
MCX BULLDEX constitutes the highly popular and liquid MCX Gold and Silver futures contracts.
MCX Technical Glitches
This is not the first time MCX has faced such an issue. Earlier this year, MCX faced a similar technical issue in July when the trading began at 10:15 AM, a delay of more than an hour.
On July 23, trading on MCX was initially expected to resume by 9:45 AM, but the exchange later revised the opening time to 10:10 AM, but trading did not resume as planned. It finally began trading from 10:15 AM after a delay caused by clearing technical processes and file sharing.
At 11:50 AM, MCX share price was trading 2.07% lower at ₹9,116.00 apiece on the BSE.
