MCX has issued a circular withdrawing additional margins on Gold and Silver futures, effective February 19, 2026.
What this means:
Traders will need to maintain lower margins when trading Gold and Silver futures on MCX. This improves capital efficiency and allows for better position management.
If you have existing open positions, the margins are already adjusted as per revised margin requirements.
The withdrawal follows MCXCCL Circular No. MCXCCL/RISK/027/2026 dated February 4, 2026.
Here’s the full circular 
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Futures trading comes with its own risks. Exchanges and the broker RMS team can increase margins at any time, leading to margin calls, forced liquidations, and further acceleration in market moves.
That is why it is imperative that, as traders, we must avoid taking on excessive leverage even when exchanges reduce additional margin requirements.
most regular/fulltime traders never use their 100% capital not for overnight/positional trades. what i’ve seen is most traders keep a buffer anyways as expiry days there’s additional margin requirement and trading in stocks also attracts more margin near monthly expiry so there’s always a buffer. so it automatically manages position sizing and never leads to margin calls or forced liquidations.
Recently, in the global commodity markets, we have seen forced liquidations of highly leveraged positions across major exchanges following sharp increases in margin requirements. This is not new. I have seen multiple such episodes unfold since I began trading.
Too often, traders take on excessive leverage, driven by greed. Not everyone operates within disciplined risk limits.
no surprise there! that’s why we get a pop-up when we login to any terminals..
If that is the case then isnt the margin benefit shall be somewhere around 8x? Yesterday the margin was ~4.01 x and today still its showing in same range or is it not applicable for Goldpetal? Similarly in SilverMIC also its still 1.8x and not revised.
