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RMS Policy – Invexmart Financial Services Pvt. Ltd.

An RMS (Risk Management System) Policy in the context of an Indian stock broking firm refers to the set of procedures, tools, and frameworks implemented to manage and mitigate risks associated with trading activities.

We at INVEXMART FINANCIAL SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED has designed the policy to protect both the firm and its clients from financial losses, fraud, regulatory breaches, and operational risks.

The RMS policy of a INVEXMART FINANCIAL SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED typically involves a combination of pre-trade, in-trade, and post-trade risk
management measures, ensuring that risks are identified, monitored, and controlled at every stage of the trading process.

Key Elements of an RMS Policy of INVEXMART FINANCIAL SERVICES
PRIVATE LIMITED:

At INVEXMART, we follow a stringent and transparent Risk Management System
(RMS) framework to protect investors and maintain market discipline. Margin acts as
a security deposit from clients to mitigate the market risk involved in trading.

Major Functions of RMS:

Allocating exposure to the clients’ trading account as per their funds & securities and enabling the clients to trade seamlessly within their available funds and securities.

Monitoring of orders and trades by clients. Checking of order rejections and increasing exposure, whenever required or sought for.

Continuously monitoring the MTM profit / loss incurred out of non-settled trades, comparing the actual margin requirements of clients and the Total Margin available for clients on a one-to-one basis and initiating remedial actions, where required.

Decision taking with regard to squaring off positions on account of MTM loss or Margin shortfalls or any other reasons that may come across.

Margins accepted by INVEXMART are classified into:

A. Cash Component:
  1. Funds available in the Client’s trading account
  2. Components of cash non-cash collateral: While placing the order there is margin applicable for each and every trade whether the same is in Cash Segment or in Derivative Segment.

As per exchange rules the margin can be deposited as per exchange list like Gilts, approved shares, mutual funds etc. after applying the appropriate
haircut.

The requirement of Margin is required 50% in the form of Cash abd 50% in the form of Gilts, approved shares, mutual funds etc.

If the cash component is not deposited by any constituent the same will be deducted from the own funds deposited with the Clearing Corporation. If own
funds are utilized by any clients the cost of funds will be debited to those clients, to the extent of utilization, on whose behalf the clearing corporation
utilized cash from own account.

B. Non-Cash Component
  • Pledged securities (after applying the exchange-prescribed Haircut/VAR)
  • Mutual fund units (after Haircut)
  • Any other instruments as permitted by the exchange from time to time


Margins are allocated based on the latest circulars and compliance guidelines issued by SEBI and respective stock exchanges.

Exposure Limits:

Cash Market segment
Clients can place orders in two products: –

  • Margin
  • Delivery

 

Margin Trade: – While the Exchanges extend exposure limits to a registered Trading Member/ brokerage entity up to certain predetermined levels, INVEXMART shall, back-to-back in respective of its Clients, determine such limits on the basis of its experience in dealing with Risks and the profile of the Client.

Generally, as a thumb rule, it has been decided that a client shall be granted an intraday exposure up to 4 times of the net value of the Net Funds after the imposition of the Margins/ Haircut in securities for trading in cash segment across all exchanges for trading in the Cash markets.

Delivery Trade: – A client shall be given exposure 1 times for buying in cash segment across all exchanges of the clear ledger balance in the account of the client.

Derivatives market segment (Equity, Currency and Commodities)

Clients can place orders in two products in the Derivatives segment: 

  • Intraday
  • Carry forward

 

Intraday Trade: – Again, as a thumb rule, After Peak margin exchange rule Invexmart has determined that for intraday trading exposure, a client shall be given exposure only 1times of the Net Funds after the imposition of the Margins/ Haircut in securities for trading in the equity derivative segments across all exchanges.

Carry forward Trade: – Invexmart, Exposure limits for each client is based on the amount of margin money deposited by each client, as per Exchange regulations. Upfront applicable margins is collected by the client. This will require 100% of the applicable span and exposure margin.

Credit For Sale:– 80% of the sold value is allow to be use for margin purpose for purchase the other share/s except the script that he has sold. In other words, Re- purchase is not allowed in the sold script.

Further, the RMS department also has the discretion to reduce / change the exposure in any or all of the segments for a particular client, branch or any segment
or all segments as a whole, with or without any prior information.

On the Derivative Expiry week Delivery margins shall be levied/Physically marking, No fresh positions in carry forward product will be allowed in the Stock's Future & options current expiry contract, clients will only be allowed to square off their existing positions.

All outstanding trades in margin/Intraday in cash & Derivative segment are squared up by the RMS Team after 3.15 pm. As Currency Derivative segment are squared up after 4.45 pm & Commodity Derivative are squared up after 11.15 pm. Delivery Vs. Margin orders Description D

Upper cap for accepting securities:
As mentioned above exchanges during last week of month issued circular mentioning the list of approved securities which exchange will accept towards
pledged for margin. There is upper cap on quantity of each security to be accepted by the clearing corporation. Invexmart may or may not accept the shares from the clients towards margin beyond the upper cap.

Pledge / Re-Pledge System:
As per SEBI’s revised pledge/re-pledge framework implemented in August 2020, clients must pledge their securities through the approved depository mechanism to avail margin benefits. This process ensures that clients retain ownership while granting margin access to brokers.

Only exchange-approved securities, assessed for their VAR and liquidity, are eligible for margin benefit. Invexmart uses the latest list of eligible securities published by the exchanges.

List of securities to be accepted:
Circulars are available on Exchanges site normally in last week of month containing list of securities to be accepted by the Exchanges towards Collaterals / Margin.

Invexmart will accept these securities from all of the clients apart from that and to mitigate the risk Invexmart may or may not accept securities other than the above list.

Invexmart will consider value of only those securities for margin purpose which are approved and accepted by the exchange.

Segment-Client Intimation / Alert Process:
Clients will be pre-intimated about their ageing debit balance and that their collateral can be liquidating against ageing debit balances through short message service on their registered mobile number.

Client collateral liquidation initiated by RMS Department will be intimated to concerned Regional/Branches via Odin message terminal and online chat, or any
other available channel as well, subject to no congestion in System / Network Wise Margin Application.

Trading on the Newly Listed securities:
Trading in newly listed shares are subject to the high market risks and rate fluctuations; the chances of higher volatility are more. The dealing in newly listed shares will be allowed with 100% full margin.

Value of collateral v/s. Debit Balance:
As per Invexmart’s existing policy, debit balance of all clients are maintained at 70% of the value of the collateral provided to Invexmart.

However, on reaching 70% or above, the Authorized Person / client are required toclear the debit balance or infuse more collateral / Funds.

If at any moment the collateral reaches 80% of the debit balance, the RMS Department may liquidate the collateral.

As per the Exposure policy of Invexmart, it is decided that clients shall not be allow to carry debit balances more than T+7 (T5+T2) days.

If the debit balance continues for T+7 days, the clients’ collateral to the extent of debit balance may be liquidated by the RMS Department. However, after this period of 7 days, company may not allowed Client to take up any fresh positions.

Refusal of Order in less liquid scrips / contracts:

Invexmart restrict clients from trading in less liquid scrips like ASM/GSM/IRP (list of which is released by the exchanges also Invexmart can restricted trading of those scrips also where it deems fit that trading in these shares will lead to price manipulation or creating artificial volumes.

Further, Invexmart does not encourage clients to trade in far month Futures& options contracts in respect of such scrips. For the risk mitigation purpose, RMS dept. shall on regular basis, identify the securities which is further allowed for trading or restrict trading in any scrip / contract.

The list is decided after considering the market scenario, Volume, Open positions, market capitalization, (what are the features that determine these matters) Exchange or SEBI circular etc.

Alert / Warning Messages:
System generated alert messages shall be sent to clients on their mark to market loss reaching 70% & 80% of the available funds. Messages are sent on the
registered mobile number of the clients. subject to available of connectivity of the vendor Further, any position being squared off by RMS dept., appropriate information shall be sent to the clients.

Client ‘Funds’ computation:
Invexmart allocates exposure limits to its clients against the “Funds” brought in by them and lying in the credit of such Client in the Books of Invexmart.

The different components of the “Funds” acceptable to Invexmart for this purpose are:

  • Cash deposit (i.e., by way of cheques/NEFT/RTGS etc tendered by the client in favour of Invexmart and cleared by the bank)
  • Surplus lying in the Clients account with Invexmart
  • Invexmart and tendered as “Funds” for availing trading exposure limits
  • Value of Pledge Securities after applicable haircut Notes:

The management may in writing allow different security valuation based on the client risk profile.

Client Categorization:
Risk department has identified various parameters based on which clients are categorized in different risk categories.

The risk manager shall classify all the clients in A, B and C category based on their risk profile, AUM & turnover.

Percentage of Hair Cut to be applied on the Value of the “Funds”:

Invexmart has prescribed a policy for effecting a margin (generally referred to as the “haircut”) on various components of the “Funds” brought in by a Client to avail Exposure limits as well as to meet Exchange or Market determined Margins while trading on the Derivative market segments.

However, the RMS department will have the powers to impose any changes or modification, to the said percentages as per market scenario, Volumes of the scrip, market capitalization of the scrip, volatility, and keeping view of SEBI or exchange circulars/ prescriptions.

Haircut will be modified from time to time by RMS Deptt. after taking records of the scrip on the parameter mentioned above etc. Securities Hair Cut Policy  If exchange haircut is up to 49%, then we take an additional 10%.  If exchange haircut is 50% to 79%, then we take an additional 15%.  If exchange haircut is
more than 79%, then we take 100%.

  • Only 80% of sale proceeds from equity sales can be reused the same day for margin purposes, as per peak margin norms.
  • Exposure is dynamically adjusted based on the stock’s VAR + ELM, reviewed daily.

Mark to Market loss:

As per the standard practice followed by Invexmart all clients are placed in Square Off Mode when M2M loss reaches threshold limit.

Currently this threshold limit is 80% of the net “Fund” value of a client for initiation of the trigger.

For the purpose of calculating M2M loss, the threshold limit is on the basis of net Funds available at the start of the trading day+ any additions and or payments during the day.

On M2M loss reaching 80% of the net available Funds, the client’s outstanding intraday trades in the Cash segment &all positions in Derivative segments will be squared off by RMS dept.

Futures contracts Margin:

  • Initial Margin = SPAN + Exposure (collected upfront before trade initiation)
  • SPAN is updated multiple times a day to reflect market volatility.
  • Clients can use both cash and pledged securities for margin.
  • All trades in this segment require 100% upfront margin, per SEBI’s peak margin mandate.

Options (Index, Stock, Currency, Commodity):

  • Buy Positions: Margin requirement equals the Option Premium only.
  • Sell Positions (Short Options): Require SPAN + Exposure margin in full.
  • Pledged margins are accepted for intraday and carry-forward option strategies under MIS and NRML.
  • CO and BO orders are not allowed in the options segment.
  • Intraday (MIS) trades are permitted only for Index Options (IDXOPT). MIS is not permitted for Stock Options, Currency Options, or Commodity Options.

Margin Monitoring & Risk Controls:

  • Invexmart’ s RMS continuously monitors client positions across all segments. In line with regulatory requirements, the following measures are enforced:
  • Real-time margin monitoring to prevent over-leverage.
  • Auto square-off of open positions without prior notice in case of margin shortfall.
  • Blocking or restricting order types based on risk levels, news events, or extreme volatility.
  • Enhanced risk controls for illiquid contracts or stocks with high VAR.

Client Obligations
Clients trading with Invexmart must:

  • Ensure sufficient margin availability before placing any order.
  • Complete the pledge process correctly through CDSL for non-cash margins.
  • Stay updated on changes to exposure rules and regulatory margin requirements.
Margin Shortfall Consequences:

If a client fails to meet the margin requirements:

  • Invexmart may restrict new orders.
  • Existing positions may be squared off without client approval.
  • Late payment charges and/or interest may be levied.
  • Repeated violations may lead to temporary or permanent suspension of the trading account.
Square-Off and Penalty Policies:

Invexmart reserves the right to square off any client position at its discretion, under
the following conditions:

  • Margin shortfall due to price fluctuations.
  • Mark-to-Market (MTM) losses beyond the prescribed limit.
  • Breach of exchange-imposed position limits.
  • Illiquid stock exposure or adverse news events.

Penalties may apply for non-compliance with margin norms or delayed settlement of obligations.