New Delhi, Dec. 7 -- Starting from Monday, December 8, the market will witness a pre-open session for equity derivatives (F&O) segment. The pre-open session will apply to both individual stock futures and index futures in the equity derivatives segment.

According to NSE, this session will run through a call auction process for 15 minutes, from 9:00 am to 9:15 am.

9:00 AM - 9:08 AM: Traders can submit, change, or cancel orders. The system will apply a randomly timed closure between the 7th and 8th minute. The random closure for the equity pre-open and equity derivatives pre-open will occur separately.

9:08 AM - 9:12 AM: Once the order entry phase ends, the order matching window begins. During this time, the system calculates the opening...