Things are looking bad for Indian markets. As I write this, the Nifty 50 is about 14% below its January high, and the Nifty 500 is about 12% below its September 2024 peak. Weirdly, smallcaps are up about 5% since the day before the war began. Gold, the thing everybody runs to when the world […]
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We do a lot at Zerodha, but most of it never reaches your inbox, thanks to our strict no-spam policy. This is our monthly roundup of product updates, new features, and everything else happening across Zerodha. Here’s what happened in September 2026. Trade From Charts is now on the Kite app We’ve brought Trade From […]
When you are trading straddles, strangles, or other multi-leg option strategies, it becomes difficult to see how the entire strategy is performing if you plot each leg separately. For example, in a straddle, the call premium might go down while the put premium goes up. If you look at each of them individually, you will […]
Trading from a phone often means moving between the chart, order window, orders, and positions while trying to keep an eye on price movement. On a smaller screen, these extra steps can make placing and managing trades cumbersome. We’ve now brought Trade From Charts (TFC) to TradingView charts on the Kite app. With TFC, you […]
From September 7, 2026, the way orders can be placed during the pre-open session is changing. There are also several changes to ETF trading, including Gold and Silver ETFs becoming part of the pre-open session for the first time. Before regular trading begins at 9:15 AM, exchanges run a pre-open session from 9:00 AM to […]
Hey all, We turned 16 on August 15th. It’s for sure been a long journey, but when I look at this picture of our first office from when we started on Aug 16th, 2010, it just feels like yesterday. 🙂 As usual, I thought this would be a good time to share a quick update […]
If you need any help with your insurance needs, reach out to Ditto here. There’s a very specific kind of financial laziness we at Ditto Insurance often notice when it comes to parents’ health insurance. Most people assume things are sorted on this front. A policy exists somewhere, premiums are getting paid, and parents have […]
So, Zero1 by Zerodha just crossed 800,000 subscribers and almost half a billion views. Over 450,000 people have opened our free personal calculators and hopefully benefited from them. But I wanted to share the story behind all this. Zero1 started as an idea within LearnApp. We have been an investee of Rainmatter since 2018. Nithin, […]
Option chain has been available on Kite for equity and index options for a while. It is now available for options traded in NSE Commodity (NCO) as well. If you trade commodity options on NSE, you can now view calls and puts across different strike prices in one place, compare relevant contract data, and place […]
Building a long-term portfolio is not only about choosing what to invest in. It also requires investing consistently over time. In practice, every investment involves deciding when to invest, calculating how many shares fit within your budget, placing orders, and ensuring that sufficient funds are available. When markets become volatile, it can also be tempting […]
All investing and trading platforms kind of look the same now, don’t they? I’m talking about Indian platforms, and sure, we can quibble about some features and some of the bells and whistles, but they seem to have converged into a broad sameness. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying they’re bad. I’m just saying […]
Filing an income tax return is important for traders and investors, whether they made a profit or a loss during the year. A common misconception is that losses do not need to be reported. However, your trading and investment activity may still need to be disclosed, and not reporting it could lead to queries from […]
People know Zerodha. They know the brand, the product, the numbers. What they don’t know are the people who built it. A lot has already been said about how Zerodha started, why we chose a flat-fee model, and why we remained bootstrapped. Nithin has written and spoken openly about many of the questions people have […]
Before you track or trade a stock, you usually have certain criteria in mind. You may be looking for stocks making sharp moves, trading near their 52-week highs, seeing high volumes in the F&O universe, or matching a particular fundamental filter. Until now, this process often happened outside the trading platform. You would open a […]
Update October 16, 2026: SEBI has announced changes to the Closing Auction Session (CAS), market closing timings, and F&O settlement methodology. These changes will come into effect from December 7, 2026. Read more. Important changes from August 3, 2026: Following the introduction of the Closing Auction Session (CAS), market closing times will be as follows; […]
Starting around 2015–16, India saw a wave of fintech startups across payments, investing, insurance, lending, and various other corners of finance. What was interesting to me was the investing side of things and all the platforms that started by offering mutual funds. This was also the period when India Stack started making financial onboarding easier. […]
Think back to the last time you set a big money goal. Maybe it was retirement. Maybe it was a corpus for when your child turns 18. You picked a date far away in the future, started investing towards it, and felt good about getting started. Now here is the honest question: in the years […]
Trailing Stoploss (TSL) was one of the most requested features from our clients, and it is now available for GTT orders on Kite Web. A normal stop loss stays fixed at the price you set. That works when you enter a trade, but it can become a problem if the trade moves in your favour. […]
Nithin has often said that the stock market is the toughest place to make easy money. I keep thinking about this line because it is a perfect encapsulation of the markets for most people. Whether you are investing or trading, making money is hard. There is often this neat distinction that investing is somehow respectable, […]
Update: For referrals made before June 1, 2026, the 10% brokerage share will be paid from June 1, 2026, onwards, if the referrer adds at least three new referrals every 12 months. A lot of our customers came to us the same way: someone they trusted told them to. We’ve never run a newspaper or […]
We have two big updates going live from June 1st. First, if you’re moving your holdings from another broker to Zerodha, we’ll refund the depository charges your current broker charges for the transfer, up to ₹500. This isn’t limited to new accounts. If you already have a Zerodha account and are transferring holdings from another […]
When you have just one or two trades, the positions page is easy to read. But once you have trades across different stocks, indices, and expiries, it becomes harder to make sense of everything in one view. Instead of reading everything as one long list, you can now group your positions on the Kite app. […]
We’re still one of the very few brokers that charges zero brokerage on delivery trades. But that’s just one part of it. We don’t send you notifications designed to make you trade more. We don’t push margin funding (MTF) to get you to borrow and trade. We don’t have differential pricing for trading, MTF, or […]
Even today, a large part of household savings in India sits in fixed deposits. The appeal is simple, predictable returns, no market volatility, and very little to manage once you’ve invested. But that simplicity doesn’t scale well. Once you have FDs across multiple banks, rates are scattered, processes differ, and tracking maturity dates and interest becomes […]
A yearly update from Zerodha Fund House. When we launched our first fund in October 2023, you invested on conviction alone since you didn’t have a track record to rely on. I wanted to write to you about what your trust in us has built and what it means for you going forward. We now […]
