Hindi: इस पोस्ट को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें। Contrary to what most people think, trading the markets isn...
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June 26, 2020
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June 10, 2020
Margins on Kite order window
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May 26, 2020
CDSL introduces PIN-based pre-authorisation for selling stocks
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April 24, 2020
How safe is it to trade with Zerodha? Recap
Recent posts
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We hope you and your loved ones are staying safe in these tough times. While we have been working from home for over 100 days now, but have been hard at work to improve your experience with us. Her...
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Hindi: इस पोस्ट को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें। Contrary to what most people think, trading the markets isn...
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Bank fixed deposits (FDs) have been the most popular retail investment product in India historically. But the FD interest rates have been continuously going down over the years and looking at curre...
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Kite web (and soon mobile) now has one the most requested features — the ability to see the margin required before taking a trade on the order window itself. While the margin calculations are str...
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There has been a sudden increase in online phishing frauds in India post the lockdown. Check this post to know more about the phishing scam you couple fall prey to when investing in the markets. Th...
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This has been a long time coming, but NSE is finally going live on Monday, June 1st, 2020, with the new margin framework for future and options trades Our F&O margin calculator is updated. Ente...
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Due to feedback from some of our users saying they are facing difficulty using charts, we have reverted to the older version of ChartIQ charts on Kite and will update the charts with the below feat...
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Update your Kite mobile app to the latest version to access this new flow. Background When you open an account with us, you are opening a trading account which allows you to buy and sell shares on ...
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Dear traders, If you happened to notice the outcry on social media (we were trending on Twitter India) and breaking news reports by some major media houses saying our systems were down today, but w...
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We had recently written this post explaining the Crude Oil fiasco and the risks that commodity brokerage firms in India are exposed to. In a situation like that on April 20, 2020, where the crude o...
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Hindi: इस पोस्ट को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें। Financials Despite being in business for ten years, there i...
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Hindi: इस पोस्ट को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें। I had recently written this post on stock market scams that...
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SEBI has taken a bunch of proactive risk-containment measures in view of the ongoing market volatility. Check this circular. This may have been misinterpreted by many people and so NSE just put out...
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Trading can be an extremely stressful activity. An emotional roller coaster that all of us face every day. I have interacted with tens of thousands of active traders for almost two decades now. A t...
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Traders, Over 1 million clients log on to our platform every day to trade. A small portion of the client-base, around 5% of clients, trades intraday using product types like MIS (Margin Intraday Sq...
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Traders, If you hold stocks or mutual funds in your portfolio that have unrealised losses, you can set off these losses against realised profits on which you have to pay taxes. To do this, you can ...
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Traders, Let us take the example of Monday, March 9, 2020. Crude oil futures on MCX opened down 30%. On Friday evening, the margin required to hold Crude Oil was 15%. So the clients who were long C...
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Hindi: इस पोस्ट को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें। The lure of easy money is what attracts people to trading a...
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While all of us wish that all the stocks we hold go up, it seldom works out that way. There will always be asset classes, sectors, and stocks which underperform your expectations. The “putting al...
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When you refer a client to Zerodha, we credit you with 300 reward points for each referral. These reward points can be used to subscribe to our premium products and partner services (more here). We...
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In the past few years, the scourge of stock tip messages, calls, and websites has become a dangerous nuisance. We’ve been seeing queries from unwitting investors who have invested based on th...
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Stamp duty will be charged uniformly irrespective of the state of residence effective from July 1st, 2020 via this notification. Until now, stamp duty was charged at different rates based on your ...
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Over the last 12 months, SEBI has been bringing in many additional rules and regulations that safeguard retail customers from any potential financial fraud at a brokerage firm. In this process, man...
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A super important part of trading is filing income tax returns (ITR), irrespective of whether you’re profitable or have made losses. Through the Markets and Taxation module on Varsity, we have no...
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SEBI put this circular on November 19th 2019 which will be in effect from Jan 1st 2020. This got recently covered by press on how it is probably the worst thing that can happen to a retail trader. ...