NSE and BSE Closed on Tuesday for Dussehra; Check Full Q4 Trading Calendar
Indian financial markets will operate on a shortened four-day schedule next week, with both premier exchanges—the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)—remaining completely shut for trading on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, in observance of Dussehra (Vijayadashami). Financial market participants, institutional portfolio desks, and retail day traders will need to recalibrate their weekly positions, derivative exposures, and settlement schedules around this planned closure. Serving as the second and concluding trading holiday for October 2026, the mid-week pause gives market players a breather amid an action-packed period driven by corporate earnings season and landmark primary market issuances, before trading resumes for regular settlement cycles on Wednesday.
Complete Trading Suspension Across Equity, Derivative, and Commodity Segments
Official exchange circulars confirm that normal transaction windows will be suspended across all asset classes and market verticals on Tuesday, October 20. According to operational filings on the NSE website, clearing and trading activities will remain closed throughout the cash capital market, futures and options (F&O) derivatives segment, electronic gold receipts (EGR), and institutional debt markets. Similarly, on the BSE platform, operations will be suspended across equity shares, equity derivatives, currency derivatives, the Negotiated Dealing System-Order Matching (NDS-RST), tri-party repo networks, commodity derivatives, and EGR clearing mechanisms. The comprehensive shutdown ensures that no domestic stock purchases, sales, contract executions, or settlement clearances can occur during the festive observance.
Q4 Market Calendar: Remaining Exchange Holidays for November and December 2026
The Dussehra suspension represents the final market closure for October, but market participants must factor three more non-weekend trading holidays into their fourth-quarter risk management strategies before the calendar year concludes. Following the Vijayadashami holiday, the domestic exchanges will next suspend operations on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, on the occasion of Diwali-Balipratipada. Trading desks will pause once again two weeks later on Tuesday, November 24, 2026, to commemorate the auspicious occasion of Prakash Guruparva (Guru Nanak Dev Jayanti). The final official trading holiday of 2026 will occur on Friday, December 25, when both exchanges remain closed for Christmas, rounding off an active trading year and providing investors with essential timeline markers to plan portfolio rebalancing, option expiry rollovers, and cash-flow management.
