Budget Day BSE Trading Session Timings

In circulars, BSE said that the stock exchange would be open on Saturday, 1 February, on account of Union Budget 2020-21 presentation. This is the first time the stock markets would be open on a Saturday for Budget.

On 28 February 2015, former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget on a Saturday, however, the stock exchanges had remained shut.

Trade session timings on 1 February according to BSE's circular:

Equity Segment:

Trading sessions	From	To
Log-in	07:00 AM	09:00 AM
Pre-Open
Order Entry period	09:00 AM	09:08 AM^
Matching period	09:08 AM	09:15 AM
Special Pre-Open for IPO & Re-listed scrips#
Order Entry period	09:00 AM	09:45 AM^
Matching period	09:45 AM	10:00 AM
Periodic Call Auction (6 sessions of 1 hour each)	09:30 AM	03:30 PM
Continuous Trading*#	09:15 AM	03:30 PM
Auction for Settlement Default
Offer Entry period	02:00 PM	02:45 PM^
Matching period	02:45 PM	03:00 PM
Closing	03:30 PM	03:40 PM
Post-closing	03:40 PM	04:00 PM
*Morning Block Deal Window (Session-1)	08:45 AM	09:00 AM
*Afternoon Block Deal Window (Session-2)	02:05 PM	2:20 PM
# Continuous Trading for SPOS scrips	10:00 AM	3:30 PM

^ - Random stoppage of order entry session in last 1 minute.

Derivatives Segment:

Trading Sessions	From	To
Log-in	07:00 AM	09:15 AM
Continuous Trading	09:15 AM	03:30 PM

Security Lending and Borrowing (SLB) Segment:

Trading Sessions	From	To
Log-in	07:00 AM	09:15 AM
Continuous Trading	09:15 AM	05:00 PM