MCX 

The Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited is a SEBI-regulated commodity-derivatives exchange that commenced operations in November 2003 and a market-infrastructure company whose core work is online trading, price discovery, and price-risk management in commodity contracts. It is not a bullion shop, not a tips channel, and not a warehouse. A hedger in metals or an authorised person in a district town is still dealing with the same exchange that calls itself India’s largest commodity-derivatives venue and, on its official page citing Futures Industry Association 2025 figures, the world’s fourth-largest by commodity-derivative contracts traded. The contract book covers bullion, industrial metals, energy, agricultural commodities, and indices built from those futures. MCX presents itself as the first Indian exchange to list commodity options and futures on bullion, base-metal, and energy indices, and the first to launch Electricity Futures in India. As of 30 June 2026 it reported 603 registered members and 29,474 authorised persons. Quality parameters and trade rules are written to the regulatory framework. MCX iCOMDEX is the real-time index family: a composite, MCX METLDEX, MCX BULLDEX, MCX ENRGDEX, and single-commodity indices for gold, silver, aluminium, copper, lead, zinc, crude oil, and natural gas. Multi Commodity Exchange Clearing Corporation Limited is the wholly owned first clearing corporation in Indian commodity derivatives. It manages collateral, risk, clearing, and settlement, acts as central counterparty, runs a Settlement Guarantee Fund, and operates the Commodity Receipts Information Systems portal for electronic receipts. International knowledge ties include CME Group and the London Metal Exchange, plus memoranda with Dalian, Taiwan Futures, Zhengzhou, Jakarta Futures, and European Energy Exchange. Technology is described as high-availability matching, real-time risk, surveillance, and data. Certifications listed are ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 22301:2019, and ISO/IEC 27001:2022. The vision line is a unified, market-driven Indian commodity market from producer to consumer. Official social destinations—LinkedIn at multi-commodity-exchange-of-india-ltd, Facebook page 676208616085080, X at mcxindialtd, YouTube channel UCgAIPM7l5vfTZZYwBJLbhlA, and Instagram at mcxindiaofficial—are public-information channels. RSS is skipped. They are not places to share a trading password or OTP and not desks that collect “membership fees” on a personal UPI ID. Confirm contracts and circulars only on mcxindia.com.