The Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX), the largest commodity trading bourse in the country, faced technical glitch on Monday, 28 October 2025, resulting in the delay of opening of trades. Trading on MCX was expected to begin at 9:30 AM instead of the normal opening time of 9:00 AM.
“Members are requested to note that the trading will start at 9:30 AM due to technical issue. Trading will start from DR. Inconvenience is regretted,” a message on MCX website said.
The bourse did not reveal the reason or nature of the glitch, but according to the statement, MCX will begin commodity trading at 9:30 AM from Disaster Recovery site. However, the trading has still not begun.
MCX is the largest commodity derivatives exchange in India and holds about 98% market share in the commodity futures trading by value. It provides trading in a wide of commodities contracts, such as gold, silver, energy, metals, agri-commodities and others.
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.