“We are committed to identifying the root cause and implementing necessary corrective actions. Updates on our findings and actions taken will be shared in due course,” the exchange said, apologizing to members for the disruption and thanking them for their patience.
The outage disrupted the normal trading schedule of what should have been a routine session for commodities traders. MCX had initially informed members that trading would begin at 9:30 am, instead of the usual 9:00 am, due to a ‘technical issue’.
It later issued two more circulars extending the delay, first until 10:30 am and then indefinitely, before finally confirming that trading would commence from the DR location in the afternoon.
Shares of MCX fell as much as 2% on the BSE following the outage, reflecting investor concerns over the repeated technical outages that have affected the stock market in recent years.
The exchange did not elaborate on the specific cause of the disruption, but said that transferring operations to the DR site – a backup infrastructure intended to ensure continuity in the event of system failures – allowed it to safely restore market access. This is not the first time MCX has faced such operational hurdles. In July 2025, the exchange had experienced a similar outage that delayed the market opening by more than an hour. A more serious four-hour outage occurred in February 2024, which was subsequently related to the migration to a new trading platform
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