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Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.

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NSE International Exchange

Market basics
Also called: NSE IX

NSE’s exchange at GIFT City in Gandhinagar, operating inside an International Financial Services Centre and regulated by the IFSCA rather than by SEBI.

In plain terms

Offshore for regulatory purposes while sitting in Gujarat, which is how a dollar-denominated contract on India’s benchmark index can trade around the clock when the domestic market cannot. It keeps its own holiday calendar, so it sometimes trades when the Nifty does not.

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GIFT Nifty

Derivatives
Also called: SGX Nifty

A US dollar-settled futures contract on the Nifty 50, traded on NSE International Exchange at GIFT City, and formerly listed in Singapore as SGX Nifty.

In plain terms

The number every 8:30 am bulletin opens with. Compare it against its own level at 3:30 pm yesterday rather than against the Nifty cash close, and the basis cancels out — what remains is the genuine overnight change. It says nothing about any individual stock.

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Indian stock market glossary · Market Vidyalaya