Muhurat Trading 2026 time today session wise: Block Deal, Pre-Open, Normal Market, Closing, Post-Closing; significance

Livemint has published a session-by-session breakdown of Muhurat Trading 2026, the special one-hour trading window held on Diwali, covering the Block Deal, Pre-Open, Normal Market, Closing, and Post-Closing sessions along with the event's cultural significance. The Muhurat session is traditionally a low-volume, symbolic trading window in which Indian exchanges open for an hour during the Diwali festival, and its timing segments determine when participants can execute negotiated block trades, auction-based price discovery, and regular continuous trades. Because liquidity in the session is typically thin, price moves can be exaggerated relative to the broader market, with the most exposed instruments being the highly traded large-cap equities and index futures where participation is concentrated. Traders and institutional desks will watch the closing auction and any late-session volatility, as well as the subsequent regular-session opening on the next trading day, for signs of whether the festive sentiment translates into sustained demand.

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