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 […]
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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 […]
Important changes from August 3, 2026: Following the introduction of the Closing Auction Session (CAS), market closing times will be as follows; there are no changes in market opening time. Stocks that are part of F&O list: Continuous trading will stop at 3:15 PM, followed by Closing Auction Session All other stocks: Trading will close […]
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 […]
Retirement is one of the few financial goals you can’t postpone. But it’s also the one most people delay thinking about. There’s always something more immediate: a house, EMIs, a vacation, or that one stock you’re sure will double. Retirement keeps getting pushed to “next year.” And yet, it’s the one goal where time matters […]
Additional ₹20 charge is only for traders using collateral margin without the required cash and only if the shortfall exceeds ₹5 lakhs. No, the brokerage for F&O at Zerodha has not gone up to ₹40. It remains at ₹20 per order. The only change is an additional ₹20 per order for customers who trade on […]
As traders and investors, we tend to keep adding instruments to marketwatch whenever something catches our attention. Over time, this can turn into a long list of stocks, indices, and contracts that becomes harder to manage. Even if you split them across multiple watchlists, finding the instrument you need at the right moment can still […]
Most trading platforms look the same for everyone. The same layout, the same widgets, and the same workflow, whether you place one trade a month or fifty trades a day. But each trader works differently. Some prefer having charts and the order window side by side; others track multiple watchlists and the option chain simultaneously, […]
Opening an HUF account hasn’t always been the easiest process. It usually involved filling out physical forms, sending documents by courier, and waiting 5–7 business days for the account to be activated. HUF (Hindu Undivided Family) accounts at Zerodha can now be opened entirely online, with most accounts activated within a day. We’ve also removed […]
We’ve added two features on MCX that address some of the everyday friction in commodity trading, managing entry and exits, and tracking contract-specific details. GTT orders for MCX Commodity prices often react to global cues such as geopolitical developments, currency movements, and macroeconomic releases, sometimes beyond regular market hours. Not everyone can monitor positions throughout […]
Most of us learned how to save money long before we learned what a mutual fund was. As kids, we saved small amounts of money in a piggy bank. There was no plan, no minimum amount, and no expectation of returns. We added whatever we could: ₹2, ₹5, and sometimes ₹10. Not because we were […]
If you track stocks, you’ve probably had occasions where you found out about something important, like a quarterly result, a rating change, or an acquisition announcement, hours or even days after it happened. By then, the market has usually already priced the event in. The information was always public. Exchanges publish filings the moment they’re […]
Trading commodity futures and options involves more moving parts than equity derivatives. In equities, most contracts follow a common rulebook. In commodities, the rules change depending on what you’re trading, expiry dates, cut-off times, and even settlement methods can differ from one contract to another. Take Gold and Crude Oil as examples. Gold futures are […]
Traders need margin to take and maintain positions. Instead of keeping large amounts of cash idle, many use their existing holdings as collateral to get margin. Until now, the margin from pledging was credited only on the next trading day. That one-day delay often became a problem when margin was needed immediately, whether to adjust […]
