Circular no.

: MCX/TECH/357/2023 June 02, 2023

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New Trading Platform – Mock trading session (03rd June 2023)
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In terms of provisions of the Rules, Bye-Laws and Regulations of the Exchange and in
continuation to the Exchange Circular no ‘MCX/TECH/735/2022’, dated December 20, 2022,
members of the Exchange are notified that, the Exchange shall be conducting mock trading
session on new trading platform on Saturday, June 03, 2023.

Trading Members may please refer to Exchange Circular MCX/CTCL/423/2017 dated

November 15, 2017, and MCX/CTCL/891/2020 dated November 25, 2020 regarding
testing of software used in or related to Trading and Risk Management. Members having
approved algorithm strategy/strategies irrespective of the algorithm having undergone
change or not, are required to participate in the mock trading session. Trading members
using third party trading platforms of empaneled vendors or in-house developed systems
through FIX/Non-FIX APIs can use this opportunity to test their respective trading
application during mock trading session. Members are requested to actively participate in
the Mock Trading Session to avoid any issue when Exchange plan to go live with new
version of trading software.

Members may note that participation in above mock is available through existing leased line
connectivity to primary site on Saturday. Members connecting via internet may participate
in this mock trading using their live (existing) SSL VPN ids through SSL VPN link
https://trading.mcxindia.com.

Session Date Timing

03rd June 2023
Special Session
01:45 pm – 01:59 pm
Mock Trading Session 02:00 pm – 06:00 pm
Client Code Modification Session 06:00 pm – 06:15 pm

Members can login to new front end namely the new Trading work station – MCX Trade
Station (MTS), new Member admin terminal - Member Control Station (MCS) with
compulsory download. Members need to use their existing (Live) SFTP login ID and password
to download required set up for participating in the proposed mock. Members are required
to uninstall and clear the application data and initiate the new installation (Path CDPsftp
\COMMON\MOCKSetup).

Members using CTCL facility are requested to actively participate in the mock trading
session using CTCL software as per new Trading interface – MCX Enhanced Trading

----------------------------------------------- Corporate office ----------------------------------------------------

Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited
Exchange Square, CTS No. 255, Suren Road, Chakala, Andheri (East), Mumbai – 400 093
Tel.: 022 – 6649 4000 Fax: 022 – 6649 4151
www.mcxindia.com email: [email protected]
Interface (ETI) API version 1.3 dated 25th April, 2023 and FIX API version 1.2 dated June
21, 2022.

Members are encouraged to actively participate in the proposed mock to test and get
acquainted with the new application interface. Members are also requested to use the end of
the day files available in the SFTP to test their back office software.

List of functionalities enabled for mock are provided in Annexure 1.

The connectivity details for Mock Trading session of new trading platform are provided in
Annexure 2.

Procedure to install The MCX Trade Station (MTS) and Member Control Station (MCS), has
been mentioned in Annexure 3.

Members are requested to note that, there is a change in default password policy for MTS &
MCS for new trading interface details as follows:

Default password
• During the first login in Mock, Users need to enter password as Mcx@1204 (MCS
users need to enter Mcx@1204) and upon successful login system will immediately
ask for password change, which can be set as per user choice as per password
guideline
• If new user is created or password is reset then default password will be set as
Mcx@ddmm. For example, if password for user id 1234 is reset on 12th April 23, then
default password would be Mcx@1204
• Member can reset MTS terminal password through MCS application.
Password Guidelines
• Passwords should be a minimum of 8 characters
• Passwords should be a maximum of 12 characters
• Passwords should contain both Upper Case and Lower Case characters (e.g.: a-z, AZ)
• The password should include digits and special characters (e.g.: 0-9,
!@#$%^&*()_+|~-=\`{}[]:";'<>?,./)
• Password history is minimum 6 passwords, hence you cannot set new password which
is used in last 6 times.

MCXCCL – eClear portal access (BaNCS)

As part of the new commodity derivatives platform, MCXCCL is pleased to introduce a new
web interface. Members (Trading and Clearing members) can login to the interface for
participating in mock session using URL – https://eclear.mcxccl.com/Bancs The Maker &
Checker user ids and passwords have been kept in Member’s SFTP download folder.
Note: Clear the browser cache and add above URL alone in your favorites (Don’t include any
additional parameters in above URL, while adding into the favorites)”
MCS & MTS user id and password have been kept in Member’s SFTP download folder
(https://cdpsftp.mcxindia.com) for participating in the said mock trading. Members need to use
their existing (Live) SFTP login ID and password to download required set up for participating
in the proposed mock.

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Members should put in place adequate mechanism to restore their trading systems to
production state at the end of mock session to ensure integrity of their trading system.

Members may please note that trades resulting from mock trading will not attract any obligation
for pay-in and payout.

Members are requested to take note of the same.

Radheshyam Yadav
VP - Technology

Kindly contact Customer Service Team on 022 – 6649 4040 or send an email at
[email protected] for any clarification.

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 Annexure 1
Functionality available for Testing

A. MCX Trade Station MTS ®

1. Login / Logout, System Lock and Change Password
2. Create / Modify and invoke Workspace
3. Market Watch profile setup – Future, Options and Index Futures
4. Broadcast on Market Watch, Market By Price, Snap Quote, Top Gainer / Loser, Most
active contracts, Market Statistics, Index View, Index Bar, Ticker
5. Normal order, Order modification and order cancellation (OWN / Client / INST
Account) and Qualified Order Cancellation
6. Exercise / Do Not Exercise Instruction, Exercise / Do Not Exercise Instruction Bulk
Upload and Exercise / Do Not Exercise Instruction Book
7. Trade Book, Order Book
8. Modified Trade Book and Offline Trade Modification Book
9. Market Wide Open Interest Alert and Market Wide Open Interest Violation
10. Net Position
11. Client Master GUI and Client Master through file upload and Participant List
12. System Message and Message log
13. Option chain and Fair Price calculator
14. Online Back-up file
15. User Preference and Save and Edit Workspace
16. New User preference to configure new Alerts / Messages.
17. New User preference related to Order quantity and price preference
18. Daily Price Limit relaxation Broadcast and message
19. Self-Trade Prevention check
20. Market Price Protection (MPP)
21. Product List and Contract information

B. Member Control Station MCS ®

1. Login / Logout, System Lock, and Password Reset for self and other Users
2. Create / Modify and invoke Workspace
3. Market Watch profile setup – Future, Options and Index Futures
4. Broadcast on Market Watch, Market By Price, Snap Quote, Top Gainer / Loser, Most
active contracts, Market Statistics, Index View, Index Bar, Ticker
5. Order and Trade confirmation for MTS and CTCL Orders. Order Modification and
cancellation of MTS / CTCL Orders
6. Qualified Order Cancellation
7. Exercise / Do Not Exercise request, Exercise / Do Not Exercise Instruction Bulk
Upload and Exercise / Do Not Exercise Instruction Book
8. User List
9. Update User Settings (MSTV/MSTQ will remain disabled)
10. Trade Book, Order Book (Only persistent orders will be available on Order book)
11. Modified Trade Book and Offline Trade Modification Book
12. Option chain and Fair Price calculator

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 13. Client Master and Participant List
14. System Message and Message log
15. Generate Online Back-up file
16. Generate Realtime Trade Export file (RTE through User Preference screen)
17. Password Reset for MTS User through Manage Member Admin Password Reset
screen
18. Client master through file upload facility
19. Enhanced User list
20. Default ‘Futures Market watch’ profile which will auto updated new Futures contract
available for Trading
21. Market watch profile will allow to add contract based on Near Month / Next Month /
Far Month filters.
22. Fair Price Calculator and Option Calculator will auto fetch the contract information
when invoked from Market Watch
23. Displaying Underlying LTP on Option Chain
24. Product List and Contract information
25. Market Wide Open Interest Alert and Market Wide Open Interest Violation
26. RT file for Open interest alerts and Violations.

C. Functions available on Clearing and Settlement system.

1. Risk Management -> Margin Utilization-> Margin Utilization View
2. Cash Deposit
3. Release of Collateral (Cash, BG, FD and Securities)
4. Upload of Allocation and De-Allocation files
5. Inst Trade Approval through screen
6. List of Post Trade functionalities moved from MCS to BaNCS application
a. Institutional Trade Book, Give up approval and realtime INST Trade file generation.
b. Margin limit Setting (Surveillance Maintenance) and Margin Surveillance Watch
(Monitor Margin Limit and Utilization)
c. Generate Devolved position file.
7. Bulk securities release through file upload
8. CTCL → CTCL Terminal→ Add CTCL Terminal
9. CTCL → CTCL Terminal→ Edit / View CTCL Terminal

→. UCC
1. UCC- > Create UCC
2. UCC- > Query UCC based on Client Status, PAN Number, Client Code, Client
Category.
3. UCC- > Query UCC and select the record with right click option “Modify” to enable
the Modify UCC screen.
4. Asset Category Mapping Master - > Create and Maintain Client category Asset wise
classification by Trading Member
5. UCC creation and modification through file is available on Member SFTP login.

▪ Notes:-
1. Members are requested to upload maximum 2000 records in one file while creation /
modification of UCC.

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 2. Members are advised not to register UCC (Client Code) same as Member Code allotted by the
Exchange in UCC database of the Exchange. The Exchange will provide Error Code – 305 i.e.
“Invalid Client Id” while creation of UCC through file and GUI.

3. With respect to Error Code – 311 (Section 1.3 - UCC List of Error Codes) mentioned in
Exchange Circular no. MCX/TECH/023/2022 dated January 13, 2022, it is clarified that if the UCC
status of the record is change from Active to Inactive along with modification of values in UCC
field, then the Exchange will allow Member to mark the UCC code as Inactive but the system will
not accept / make the modification in the UCC records uploaded by the Member other than UCC
status field. It may be noted that similar validation will be performed while modification of UCC
through GUI.

D. Functions available on Delivery Management system.

1. Clearing>>Delivery Management>>Delivery Process >>Delivery Intentions
2. Clearing>>Delivery Management>>Delivery Process >> Query Delivery Intentions
3. Clearing>>Delivery Management>>Delivery Process >> Check Delivery Intentions
4. Clearing>>Delivery Management>> Commodity PayIn and PayOut >> Commodity
PayOut Preference>> Create Commodity PayOut Preference
5. Clearing>>Delivery Management>> Commodity PayIn and PayOut >> Commodity
PayOut Preference>> Query Commodity PayOut Preference

E. Back-Office Files.
1. 1 Ad Hoc Charges File to Member
2. Allocation/Deallocation File from Member - Incoming file
3. Allocation/Deallocation Response file to Member
4. CTT File to Clearing Member
5. CTT File to Trading Member
6. Early Pay In File To Member
7. Intention Matching Details to Members
8. Movement Order Details to Members
9. Matching and Marking Details to Members
10. Expiring Collaterals
11. Expiring Collaterals for End Client/CP
12. Stamp Duty File to Clearing Member
13. Stamp Duty File to Trading Member
14. Custodian Participant Master File
15. Debit/Credit Note to Member
16. Ex-DEx Intimation File to Member
17. EXDI File
18. Market Statistics File
19. REALTIME OUTGOING GIVE UP FILE WITH PENDING APPROVAL
20. REALTIME INCOMING GIVE UP FILE (INCOMING FILE)
21. REALTIME RESPONSE TO INCOMING GIVE UP FILE (RESPONSE TO INCOMING
FILE)
22. Obligation File to Clearing Member
23. Obligation File to Trading Member
24. Margin File to Clearing Member
25. Margin File to Trading Member
26. Position.csv

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27. Ex-DEx Intimation File from Member - Incoming file
28. Response of Ex-DEx Intimation file to member
29. Collateral File to Members
30. Collateral File to Members for End Client/CP
31. CSV Position File
32. Peak Margin Details File to Clearing Member
33. Peak Margin Details File to Trading Member
34. Share Securities Outward Response File to Clearing Member

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 Annexure 2

New Trading Interface - Connectivity details for Primary Site

Trading Interface – Interactive
MTS/MCS CTCL Algo FIX
Particulars IP address
TCP Port TCP Port TCP Port TCP Port
Host lookup 192.168.63.61 19006 19106 19206 19306
Gateway-1 192.168.63.48 19006 19106 19206 –
Gateway-2 192.168.63.49 19006 19106 19206 19306
Gateway-3 192.168.63.50 19006 19106 19206 19306
Gateway-4 192.168.63.51 19006 19106 19206 –

Distribution Server -IP address TCP Port Description

192.168.63.53 19081 Distribution server 1
192.168.63.54 19081 Distribution server 2

Market Data
Particulars IP address UDP Port Description
Trading Market Data - Market Data Interface (MDI)
High Frequency Market
MDI 239.255.70.3 19096
Data
Enhanced Market Data Interface (EMDI)
19088 (EMDI – Incremental)
EMDI – Gold stream 239.255.70.10
19090 (EMDI - Snapshot)
19088 (EMDI – Incremental)
EMDI - Silver, Agri 239.255.70.14
19090 (EMDI - Snapshot)
19088 (EMDI – Incremental)
EMDI – Energy 239.255.70.18
19090 (EMDI - Snapshot)
19088 (EMDI – Incremental)
EMDI – Base Metal 239.255.70.22
19090 (EMDI - Snapshot)
Enhanced Order Book Interface (EOBI) – Tick-by-Tick Market Data (TBT)
19088 (Incremental)
Gold stream 239.255.70.4
19090 (Snapshot)
19088 (Incremental)
Agri stream 239.255.70.6
19090 (Snapshot)
19188 (Incremental)
Silver stream 239.255.70.8
19190 (Snapshot)
19288 (Incremental)
Energy stream 239.255.70.26
19290 (Snapshot)
19388 (Incremental)
Base Metals stream 239.255.70.28
19390 (Snapshot)
Index stream 239.255.70.30 19080 –
Note:
• Enhanced Market Data Interface (EMDI) and Tick-by-Tick Market Data (EOBI/TBT) are
applicable only for Members using Point to Point (P2P) Leased Line
• EMDI multicast will be configured only on EOBI/TBT enabled point to point links.
• Members are requested to enable the above mentioned access (IP address/PORT and
Multicast IP) at their end to actively participate the continuous mock.

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 Route addition
Members having leased line are requested to add persistent routes of below mentioned
IP pool in their respective trading servers/ desktops having multiple NIC (Network
Interface card). Please note the routes are required to be added in the trading servers/
desktop with multiple NIC and members trading through leased line only.

IP pool Subnet mask Gateway

192.168.73.0 255.255.255.0

192.168.71.0 255.255.255.0 MCX Leased line router

192.168.61.0 255.255.255.0 IP address

192.168.63.0 255.255.255.0

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 Annexure 3
Steps for downloading files for participating in Mock Trading:

• MTS installation guide is available on https://cdpsftp.mcxindia.com (file name

MTS_Installation_Guide_V.1).

• Members are required to uninstall and clear the application data and initiate the new
installation.

• Members are required to unzip installable file “MTS_Mock_14.0.2.XX.Zip” and

BroadcastRTDSetup.Zip for mock

• to install MTS - MCX-Trade Station(MTS).msi and BroadcastRTDSetup.msi.

• Member are required to unzip installable file “MCS_Mock_14.0.2.XX.Zip” for mock

• to install MCS - Member Control Station(MCS).msi for mock

• Post installation of MTS software as per above mentioned guidelines, Members are also
required to compulsorily update the same using guidelines mentioned in the ‘MCX Member
Trading Station (MTS) - Auto-Update Manual’ which is also available in Common/MockSetup
folder in the SFTP (Extranet) Server on https://cdpsftp.mcxindia.com

• CTCL Contract Master for mock kept in the Common folder in the SFTP (Extranet) Server
using https://cdpsftp.mcxindia.com for downloading through Internet to the members
system. Files can be downloaded any time through Internet.

• Members using MTS facility and having specific local firewall access rules need to ensure that
access to IP Address should be enabled at their end for seamless connectivity to Exchange
trading system.

• It is recommended to whitelist software which may hinder seamless broadcast dissemination

for the machines on which MTS and MCS applications are installed

• Members are requested to auto update MTS and MCS applications or uninstall and install
latest application available on sftp as mentioned in circulars.

• Ensure Admin Access is provided to installation path (C:\Program Files (x86)\Tata

Consultancy Services)

• The “Load Script File From Local Path” option should always be unchecked by default.

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• Recommended Hardware & Software requirement for installation of MTS & MCS as
follows:

• Hardware
Machine Model Intel i7
Memory Recommended - 8 GB
Screen Resolution 1366 X 768
Available Disk Space 4 GB Free Disk Space
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10
Dot net framework 4.7 Microsoft website (Dot net framework 4.7)

• Software
Dot net framework 4.7 Free Microsoft website (Dot net
framework 4.7)
FarPoint --- 12.45.20193.0 Licensed (Included Grapecity official website
within TWS setup)

For any further clarifications, members may contact MCX Customer Support team on +91
22 – 6649 4040 or send e-mail to [email protected].

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