The preauthorisation process explained in this post is currently only available on Kite web. We will make this available on the mobile app soon. Background When you open an account with us, you are...
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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
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April 17, 2020
Beware of the Phishing Scam
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March 21, 2020
Introducing ImStrong
Recent posts
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The preauthorisation process explained in this post is currently only available on Kite web. We will make this available on the mobile app soon. Background When you open an account with us, you are...
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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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The collection of Uniform Stamp Duty has been postponed from April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2020 by the Central Government via this notification. Stamp duty will be charged uniformly irrespective of the ...
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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. ...
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Illiquid options are those without frequent trading. Most of the Options are illiquid. And that gets us into traps such as: Not getting a trade to exit when you want to get an exit Getting a wide b...
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We launched Good Till Triggered (GTT) orders in July this year to help you place long-standing equity delivery orders to set stoploss and target on your holdings, or to set triggers to buy stocks a...
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The list of trading holidays for the calendar year 2020 has been announced by BSE. Here’s a one-page list of all trading holidays for NSE & BSE. Holidays Date Day Mahashivratri Februar...
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24X7 NEFT transactions are not available on the corporate portal of our banking partners yet. We are working with them to enable this for same day fund withdrawal for all our clients. Introducing: ...
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The Streak team has been working for the past few months on revamping the platform to make your experience better, based on your feedback. Here is a post from the Streak team introducing the new St...
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This damning SEBI order against Karvy has come as a shock to everyone in the capital market ecosystem. While the press is going to start reporting its interpretations, we should reserve judgement a...
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We’re thrilled to let you know that we have been awarded the “Best retail brokerage firm in India” by the National Stock Exchange (NSE) for the second year in a row. Above is a picture of...