Author: Team Zerodha

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Looking back on 2024: A year of transitions

It’s the end of another year, and it’s a good time to look back on the year that was. Performance-wise, 2024 was a weird year. Whether you were bullish or bearish, the markets gave everyone something. When you look at the broad indices, it was a good year for the markets. Look underneath the indices, […]

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01 Jan 2025
 

Introducing Margin Trading Facility (MTF) on Kite

We are happy to finally announce the launch of MTF (Margin Trading Facility) at Zerodha. This one has been a long time coming and is probably the most frequent feature request we’ve received over the years. We were caught up in two minds about whether to offer MTF or not. But eventually, given the pace […]

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19 Dec 2024
 

Beware of investment scams in the name of Zerodha

The number of people falling for fake website and app scams is increasing day by day. Not a day goes by where someone doesn’t tell us they’ve lost money to these scams. The scale at which these scams operate is scary. These scams take advantage of the familiarity that you have with major brands, celebrities, and companies like ours.

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21 Nov 2024
 

New educational and content initiatives at Zerodha

Educating traders and investors has been a core focus for us at Zerodha since day one. In 2024, we’ve ramped up these efforts with a variety of new initiatives, all aimed at helping people understand the markets and manage their money better. Our last update on content initiatives was in July, so we thought it […]

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10 Oct 2024
 

What’s new at Zerodha: September 2024

Over the past few months, we’ve been working hard to introduce new features and enhance existing ones to simplify your trading and investing experience. To make sure you don’t miss out, we’ve compiled all the updates for you in this post.

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10 Oct 2024
 

SEBI’s new rules for direct payout of securities: What’s changing?

SEBI issued new circulars that affect how securities are credited to a client’s demat account. These guidelines, which will be implemented in two phases beginning October 14, 2024, aim to improve operational efficiency while reducing risks associated with the traditional system.

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07 Oct 2024
 

SEBI’s new rules for index derivatives: Here’s what’s changing

On October 1, 2024, SEBI released a circular that changes a few things for index derivatives. Here’s a breakdown of all the changes and their impact. Increase in contract size Currently, the contract size for index F&O contracts is between Rs. 5 lakhs to 10 lakhs. Starting November 21, 2024, the contract value will be […]

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03 Oct 2024
 

Revision in exchange transaction charges and securities transaction tax from October 1, 2024

In July SEBI released a “true to label” circular stating that market infrastructure institutions (MIIs) have to be “true to label” in the charges they levy to bring in more transparency in pricing. This circular comes into effect from October 1, 2024, and as a result, the exchanges have revised the Exchange Transaction Charges (ETC)—these […]

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01 Oct 2024
 

The nuisance of fake trading apps

Fake trading apps have become a significant problem, with thousands of people losing crores of their hard-earned money. To help raise awareness, we explain how these scams operate, why people are drawn into them, and how you can protect yourself from falling victim.

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29 Aug 2024
 

Introducing Privacy mode on Kite

You can now keep all your sensitive information regarding your investments and trading positions hidden using the new Privacy Mode on Kite web.

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22 Aug 2024
 

Zerodha’s Infrastructure Upgrades

We recently sent SEBI a routine summary of significant infrastructure and software upgrades and performance improvements that we have made in the last 18 months. Here’s a copy of the document. It does not include product features and improvements, only major upgrades in the backend. Hardware Our OMS installations and exchange connectivity run on independent […]

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29 Jul 2024
 

Zerodha tax reports

It is critical for traders and investors to file their taxes, whether they made a profit or a loss. People often think that they don’t need to file taxes if they’ve made losses, but that’s not true. We also understand that filing your taxes might seem difficult, so we have created reports on Console to […]

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23 Jul 2024
 

Introducing Markets by Zerodha

It’s a weird paradox that we have so much financial content, but so little of it is good. Most of what passes for financial content today is dangerous nonsense. Sadly, this gets the maximum attention. At Zerodha, we have always tried to publish high-quality content from day 1 on all things markets, from Varsity, Z-Connect, […]

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22 Jul 2024
 

Update on all the education initiatives at Zerodha

Educating traders and investors has been a core aspect of what we do at Zerodha since day one. Through the years, we’ve tried to do more across platforms and formats. In the past year, all of our efforts to create more educational resources have gained momentum. Since we are publishing text and videos across platforms […]

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05 Jul 2024
 

What’s new at Zerodha: June 2024

Over the previous quarter, we launched several cool features to make your trading and investing experience easier. Here are the key feature updates in case you missed them.

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25 Jun 2024
 

Introducing new fundamentals widget on Kite powered by Tijori

The new Fundamentals widget gives you a quick fundamental snapshot of stocks, ETFs and indices across metrics such as valuations, revenue breakdown by products and geographies, financials, peer comparison, shareholding pattern and much more.

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24 Jun 2024