Author: Team Zerodha

Ecommerce platform, Meesho, is getting ready to submit a confidential IPO application in Mumbai in the coming weeks. Moving its headquarters from Delaware USA to India can be considered a necessary step in the process. The estimated IPO issue size for Meesho is $700 to $800 million. Despite difficult market conditions, the Softbank backed startup […]

National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL), the first electronic securities depository in India, is proceeding with its IPO to raise Rs 3421.6 crores. As per the DRHP, 50.1 million shares will be included in the offer. The IPO is set as an offer for sale by the current shareholders that include State Bank of India, National […]

The Margin Trading Facility (MTF) is a service that allows you to buy shares by paying only a portion of the total cost. Zerodha funds the remaining amount, and interest is charged on it. Since launching Margin Trading Facility (MTF) last year, we have been working on making several enhancements to improve your MTF experience. […]

Key Highlights On 28th May, Scoda Tubes, manufacturer of stainless-steel seamless and welded tubes and pipes, opened a ₹ 220 crores Initial Public Offering (IPO). The issue closes today, May 30, 2025. The IPO is oversubscribed close to 7 times. The retail investors have applied for over 384 lakh shares against the 55 lakh shares […]

You can now connect your Zerodha account to AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf completely free of charge with the new Kite Model Context Protocol (MCP). With this, you instantly get a personal financial assistant that understands your portfolio and can answer complex questions in any language of your choice. What is Model Context […]

Have you noticed how your Marketwatch gets messier over time? As traders and investors, we usually do not delete items from our watchlists—we just keep adding new stocks and F&O contracts that interest us. When you are keeping an eye on many instruments, scrolling through a long list becomes really hard. Even with multiple watchlists, […]

Before investing in any company, it’s important to do your own research. The problem is, fundamental data like what the company does, the financials, peer comparisons, news, and other parameters and data points are often scattered across different websites. To make your stock research easier, we’ve built Stock Pages powered by Tijori, bringing together all […]

Trading is all about making quick decisions when you spot opportunities. When you see a promising pattern on your charts or when your technical indicators signal a potential trade, you need to act fast. Until now, this meant moving between chart analysis and order placement screens, which required extra steps during important market moments. Trade […]

NSE just published their circular on retail algo trading specifications. It creates a clean, secure framework for brokers to offer APIs and automation tools to retail traders. The circular addresses the needs of individual traders automating strategies, algo vendors selling to retail users, and brokers offering platform-based automation. Key Points for Each Stakeholder Individual Automation […]

Welcome to our Quarter 1 2025 update, where we bring you all the latest improvements we have made to improve your trading and investing experience. Over the past three months, we’ve rolled out several new features and enhancements across Kite, Coin, Console, and our other platforms – to make your experience smoother. From a new […]

The Portfolio Performance Curve shows the actual performance of your investments and trades (equity, mutual funds (MF), MTF, F&O, intraday, and commodities) after accounting for cash inflows and outflows. Looking at the absolute P&L of your portfolio does not tell you anything about your performance because it is just a snapshot in time. To accurately […]

A Systematic Transfer Plan (STP) is a smart way to invest gradually. Instead of putting a large amount of money into mutual funds all at once, STP lets you automatically transfer a fixed amount at regular intervals from one fund to another. STPs help when you want to move money from low-risk funds like liquid […]

The Indian markets have grown more in the last five years than in the preceding decade and a half. Before 2020, it took roughly a decade for the unique investor count to double from 1.5 crores to 3 crores. After the pandemic, it only took a couple of years for the investor count to keep […]

Over the past few months, we have been working hard to introduce new features to simplify your order placing experience on Kite. Here are some useful additions we have made to the Kite order window: Order slicing – You can now easily place large orders without having to worry about exchange freeze limits. Available margin […]

Kite and Coin are two of our primary transaction platforms. Kite is designed for active traders, while Coin is meant for long-term investors who invest in mutual funds. Given the different use cases and audiences they are aimed at, we have kept both the platforms separate. Combining them would clutter the interface with features only […]

Options traders rely on option chains to spot opportunities and make informed decisions. Think of it as your trading dashboard—showing all available contracts, strike prices, premiums, and market sentiment in one view. We have redesigned the option chain on Kite to bring together market depth, trading, and position tracking all in one place, making it […]

As an investor or trader, staying updated with market-moving events is important. But tracking multiple economic announcements and IPO openings can be overwhelming, making it easy to miss important updates. We have been working on making this easier for you. Zerodha Economic Calendar Last year, we launched the Zerodha Economic Calendar to help you track […]

Nithin recently made a post on Twitter about how we at Zerodha have never advertised. While this strategy has worked really well for us, it got us thinking — do our customers know everything we have to offer? For example, did you know that we are the only large broker to still offer 0 brokerage […]

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, […]

As we begin 2025, we wanted to take a moment to look back at what we have been up to in 2024.

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 […]

Ever wondered who’s behind the brands and products you use every day? We’ve made it super simple to find companies just by searching their brands or products names on Kite.

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.

We are happy to announce the launch of Money Mindful, a new financial education series that aims to help anyone enter the financial services industry.

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 […]