Muhurat Trading 2025 Highlights: The Indian stock market held the special Muhurat trading session today, 21 October 2025, on the occasion of Diwali 2025. The Muhurat trading session is an annual ritual, considered highly auspicious, and marks the beginning of the new Hindu calendar year, or Vikram Samvat.
Muhurat trading session is a symbolic one-hour trading session conducted by the Indian stock exchanges and the commodity exchanges. This year, the BSE, NSE, MCX and NCDEX marked the start of Samvat 2082.
Muhurat Trading
The Block deal session began at 1:15 pm and closed at 1:45 pm. Thereafter, a pre-open session for IPOs and relisted securities was done from 1:30 pm to 1:45 pm. After that, a normal Muhurat trading session was scheduled from 1:45 pm to 2:45 pm.
The Indian stock market ended marginally higher on Tuesday in the Muhurat trading session, extending gains for the fifth consecutive session. Asian markets rose, while the US stock market rallied overnight.
The benchmark BSE Sensex ended 62.97 points, or 0.07%, higher at 84,426.34, while the NSE Nifty 50 settled 25.45 points, or 0.10%, higher at 25,868.60. Bank Nifty index 26.00 points, or 0.04%, lower at 58,007.20.
Meanwhile, Nifty 50 has risen for the eighth straight Muhurat trading session.
In the commodity markets, precious metal prices declined in the Mumhurat trading session 2025. MCX gold rate ended lower by ₹271, or 0.21%, at ₹1,28,000 per 10 grams, while MCX silver price dropped by ₹327, or 0.22%, to close at ₹1,50,000 per kg.