History will be made on 1st February! NSE, BSE, MCX and NCDEX will remain open on Sunday on Budget Day; Know the timing
The Union Budget 2026 will be presented on Sunday, February 1, when stock and commodity markets will be open. NSE, BSE, MCX and NCDEX will remain open at normal timings in special trading sessions. This will be the second time in independent India that markets will remain open on Sunday on Budget Day.
The Union Budget 2026 will be presented this time on Sunday, February 1. Generally the markets are closed on Sundays, but due to the budget, the stock market as well as the commodity markets will remain open, so that investors and traders can immediately react to the decisions related to the budget. For this reason, it has been decided that the Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX) will remain open as a special trading session on 1 February. Trading on this day will be as per normal market timings and live trading can be done.
Not only MCX, but the agricultural commodities exchange National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) will also be open for trading on this day. That means traders trading in agri commodities will also be able to trade on Sunday. Both the exchanges had already given information about this through the circular issued on January 16, so that investors could make their trading strategy in advance. The special thing is that this has happened earlier also. When the Budget 2025 was presented on Saturday, MCX and NCDEX were still open. That is, keeping the commodity market open on the budget day is now becoming a normal practice.
MCX trading timings on 1st February 2026
Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX) will be open for trading as per normal timing on the day of Union Budget 2026. The pre-open session on MCX will run from 8:45 am to 8:59 am. After this, normal trading will take place from 9 am to 5 pm. Additionally, the client code modification session will be open from 9am to 5:15pm.
Trading schedule on NCDEX
National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX), the exchange related to agricultural commodities, will also be open for trading as per normal timing on Sunday. The pre-open session on NCDEX will start at 9:45 am, while normal trading will run from 10 am to 5 pm. Here also the facility of client code modification will be available till 5:15 pm.
Why is it special to open the market on Sunday?
This will be the second time in the history of independent India that the stock markets will be open for trading on Sunday. Earlier this had happened on 28 February 1999, when the markets were opened during the government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
This time Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is going to present the ninth consecutive Union Budget.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is going to present her ninth consecutive Union Budget this time. She will give the budget speech at 11 am. Double digit growth in government capital expenditure (capex) is expected in this budget.
NSE and BSE will also remain open
Not only commodities, but equity exchanges NSE and BSE will also remain open as per normal trading timings on February 1. Investors and traders will be able to react to budget-related decisions on the same day. Traditionally, the amount of discussion about Budget Day does not have a big impact on the stock market. According to the data of last 15 years, the average movement of Nifty on the budget day has been only 0.19%. However, in the week after the Budget, the market has given almost seven times more returns than on Budget Day.
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