Derivatives trading in emerging economies with special reference to India

In this study The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) has been taken as the sample exchange since this is the only exchange which provided the derivatives facility throughout the reference period of the study. The reference period of the study has been taken from 2001-02 to 2011-12.MAGR has been employed to determine the growth of derivatives in NSE and this study concludes  that the derivatives products such as Stock Futures, Stock Options , Index Options and Index Futures have shown significant growth during the earlier years during which the national and international sentiment was quite optimistic, however, since the year 2009-2010 the derivatives market have registered sluggish growth even negative growth in some cases because of the slowdown in The U.S.A. and debt crises in the Euro zone which engulfed the emerging capital markets all over the globe including India. It was this reason that impacted the volumes of derivative products in India. Despite, all these economic disturbances the overall growth of derivatives continued in India though at decreasing pace