What’s new at Zerodha: June 2025

From the redesigned marketwatch to trading from charts and AI integration, in the past quarter, we’ve rolled out a series of updates to improve your trading and investing experience. Whether you’re tracking markets, researching stocks, or placing orders, these updates give you more control and insight.

In case you missed our updates, here’s a quick overview of what’s new:

• Redesigned marketWatch on Kite web: More space, better customisation
• Trade from Charts: Place orders directly from TradingView charts on Kite web
• Portfolio Performance Curve: Track your portfolio performance on Console
• Stock Pages powered by Tijori: Company research, all in one place
• AI integration: Get quick insights for your investments and positions using Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• Mobile app updates: Market protection orders, order slicing, mutual fund tracking, and more
• Reduced API pricing with a new free tier for certain services
• MTF enhancements with higher limits and more eligible stocks
• Collateral margin updates for options trading and reduced haircuts

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A redesigned Marketwatch on Kite

We’ve redesigned MarketWatch on Kite to give you more control and flexibility, whether you’re tracking stocks, F&O contracts, or both. Here’s what’s new:

• More watchlists and space: Now create up to 25 watchlists, each with up to 250 instruments.
• Custom groups: Organize items within the watchlist in custom groups such as sector, expiry, strategy, or your research to avoid clutter
• Predefined watchlists: Instantly access ready-made sets like the Nifty 50 or sector indices (Auto, Banking, etc.). Handy if you’re just getting started or want a quick snapshot.

To explore more about the new MarketWatch, check out this post.

Trade from charts on TradingView, charts on Kite

One of the most requested features, Trade from Charts (TFC), is now live on TradingView charts within Kite web. You can now place, modify, and cancel orders right from the charts, without switching tabs or disrupting your flow.

With Trade from Charts, you can:

• Place orders quickly from the charts
• Set stop-loss and limit orders at specific price levels
• Drag and drop to modify your orders
• Track your open positions right on the chart
• Auto-save for the default layout
• Set price alerts directly from charts and much more…

To learn more about the trading from charts feature, read this post.

Both the new marketwatch and trade from chart features are currently available on the Kite web platform and will soon be available on the mobile app.

Portfolio Performance Curve on Console

When tracking your performance, absolute P&L gives you just a snapshot. But to really understand how your investments are doing, you need to track performance over time, adjusted for every deposit, withdrawal, and trade. And then see how that compares against the market.

That’s where the new Portfolio Performance Curve on Console comes in.

Think of it like the NAV curve you see for mutual funds, but for your entire trading account. It shows how your portfolio value has moved across time, including equity, F&O, and intraday trades.

You can also compare your performance to indices like the NIFTY 50, Nifty Midcap 150, Nifty Smallcap 250, Nifty 500, and even Nifty G-Sec, all in one simple chart. Read more.

Stock Pages powered by Tijori

Before investing in any company, you need to understand what it does, how it’s performing, and how it stacks up against its peers. But that info is usually scattered across multiple sites, making research a chore.

To make the process simpler, we’ve introduced Stock Pages powered by Tijori. These pages bring together everything you need to know about a company in one place.

With Stock Pages, you can:

• Discover companies across different sectors
• Get a complete view of a company’s financial performance
• Compare it against standard indices or custom Tijori indices tailored to specific sectors
• Track important updates and metrics and explore deeper insights on Tijori when needed.

Check out stock pages.

Connect your Zerodha account to AI assistants

You can now link your Zerodha account to AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf completely free using the new Kite Model Context Protocol (MCP). With Kite MCP, you get your personal financial assistant, one that understands your portfolio and can answer complex questions in any language, in real time.

Here’s what you can do with Kite MCP:

Get live market prices, not just historical data.
Receive analysis tailored to your portfolio instead of generic advice.
Ask questions and retrieve exactly the information you need, from stock performance to P&L breakdowns.
Talk to AI about complex market data in plain, simple language.

Learn more about Kite MCP and how to set it up.

Mobile app updates

We’ve brought several important feature updates to the Kite mobile app that were previously only available on the web.

Market Protection: During volatile markets, this prevents your market orders from executing at extreme prices. When enabled, your market orders will only execute within a predefined price range. Just tap Advanced on the order screen and toggle it on.

Order Slicing: If you’re placing large orders that exceed exchange limits, the app now automatically splits them into smaller chunks. Whether you’re using the regular order window, baskets, or positions, it handles the splitting for you.

Available Margin in the order window: You can now see your available funds right alongside the required margin and charges before placing an order.

Remember quantity: A useful feature for F&O traders. Once enabled, the app remembers the quantity you use for each contract. So if you always trade 500 quantities of Bank Nifty, it auto-fills that every time.

Mutual Fund tracking on the app: We’ve added a new Mutual Funds tab under Holdings. This allows you to easily track all your MF investments, see purchase-wise breakdowns, and add or redeem, all in one place.

Quick exit for positions and holdings: The new quick exit feature on Kite lets you close positions or exit holdings in just two taps. It’s handy when you need to act fast, no need to enter quantity or price, as the entire order gets executed at market price. Read more.

In-app holdings breakdown: You can now see a detailed breakdown of your holdings on Kite. Tap on any stock in your portfolio, then View breakdown to check P&L, purchase date, holding period, and more for shares bought at different times.

Updated nudge behavior: We’ve improved how nudges work on the order window. Earlier, if a trade triggered a risk warning, the nudge would pop up as a separate prompt, and you had to take an extra step to place the order. Now, the nudge simply appears as an icon right inside the order window, so you’re still informed, but there’s no interruption. This makes placing orders faster and smoother, without missing important risk signals.

Reduced API pricing and a free tier

NSE recently published a circular on retail algo trading specifications. These regulations create a clean, secure framework for brokers to offer APIs and automation tools to retail traders and also address the needs of individual traders automating strategies, algo vendors selling to retail users, and brokers offering platform-based automation.

With this new regulatory clarity, our regulatory risk in offering the product is greatly reduced. So, we’ve lowered Kite Connect’s price from ₹2000 to ₹500 per month for the data (real-time + historical) APIs and made the order placement and account management APIs (view holdings, positions, etc.) free since March 2025.

Explore Kite Connect APIs.

MTF updates

Since launching MTF last year, we have been working on making several enhancements to improve your Margin Trading Facility experience. Recently, we made four useful improvements:

• Convert MTF to delivery: You can now convert your MTF positions to delivery with just a few clicks; no need to square off or exit separately.
• Higher MTF limits: You can now trade with up to ₹6 crore per stock and ₹30 crore per account, giving you greater flexibility for large trades.
• More MTF-eligible stocks: MTF is now available on 1,300+ stocks, with up to 5X leverage, so you have more options to choose from to diversify your portfolio.
• GTT and AMO for MTF: You can now place GTT (Good Till Triggered) and AMO (After Market Orders) for MTF positions, allowing you to place orders without needing to monitor the market constantly.

Buy options using collateral margin

Many traders prefer to invest their funds in stocks, bonds, ETFs, or mutual funds and pledge these holdings to get margin for F&O trading. Up until now, you could only use this collateral margin for intraday equity, selling options, or trading futures.

If you wanted to buy options, you still needed to keep a separate cash balance in your account. You can now use collateral margin to buy options as well. Learn more about pledging.

Lower haircut for pledged securities

We’ve reduced the haircut on pledged securities. This means you’ll now receive higher collateral margins when you pledge your holdings.

For example, earlier, if you pledged shares worth ₹100,000 with a 15% haircut, you’d get ₹85,000 as collateral margin. With the haircut reduced to 10%, you now get ₹90,000 instead. Check all the approved securities and their haircut here.

Varsity

Varsity Live

Varsity Live, our interactive learning initiative, crossed 150,000 total registrations.

Instead of just reading or watching finance lessons, you do them live with Varsity Live. Whether it’s drawing trend lines, analyzing balance sheets, or creating a personal finance plan, participants follow along with real-time demos, interactive leaderboards, and animated walkthroughs to make learning hands-on and fun.

You can sign up for Varsity Live session at varsitylive.zerodha.com

Community meet-up

Varsity took its fourth Community Meet-up to Chennai. With about 170 attendees, it was the largest meet-up so far and also had the highest women’s participation. The well-informed crowd discussed trading and investing amid the imposition, withdrawal, and all the confusion surrounding tariffs imposed by the US.

Quiz in Arunachal Pradesh

We recently took the Varsity Quiz to the Northeast, with the first one in Indira Gandhi Government College, Tezu, in Arunachal Pradesh. Varsity Quizzes are reaching the lengths and breadths of the country in our continued efforts to ignite financial awareness among Indians.

Summer camp for kids

We ran a summer camp on Varsity Live to help kids learn the basics of money, like saving, spending, and building healthy financial habits early on. Moment of pride: Dadachi Shala, a Pune-based NGO, streamed the session live for about 35 children.

Varsity Quiz Corporate edition

After taking the Varsity Quiz to colleges across the country, we hosted the first-ever Varsity Quiz Corporate Edition in June 2025. We’ll do more corporate quizzes, alongside our ongoing college editions.

Loan against Securities (Zerodha Capital)

Your credit score plays a big role in how easily you can get a loan or a credit card—and how much interest you’ll pay. A higher score means better approval chances and lower borrowing costs. To help you stay updated, we’ve added a feature on the Zerodha Capital website where you can quickly check your credit score and understand what it means.

We’ve also lowered the interest rate for LAS from 11.5% to 11%.

Rainmatter ecosystem

Through Rainmatter, we continue supporting and partnering with driven founders and builders in wealth/investing, health, sustainability, and storytelling. You can check out all of our recent investments on our website.

Did you know:

Kite is the most privacy-friendly trading app in the industry. Storage was the only permission we used to ask for, and we’ve removed that as well. It’s now 0 permissions out of 10 😀