Options on the Zargar gold fund with a September expiry launch on 8 August
1 August 2026 | 3 months ago
The Iran Mercantile Exchange announced that options contracts on units of the Karamad gold fund, trading under the symbol Zargar, with a Shahrivar 1405 expiry, will launch on Saturday 17 Mordad 1405 (8 August 2026). The contracts expire on 28 Shahrivar 1405 (19 September 2026).
According to the notice, the contracts trade without a price fluctuation limit, with each session opening with a 15 minute auction period before moving to normal continuous trading.
Options on gold fund units sit alongside the bullion deposit certificate market as a regulated instrument for hedging and for trading movements in the gold price.
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