Traders, EA’s or Expert Advisors as they are popularly known especially in the meta trader community are programs that allow automation of analytic processes. What this means is that you can convert your trading strategy into a code/program, backtest it to see if it had earned money in the past, and take profitable strategies live as […]
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“Check out our detailed module on taxation while trading/investing on varsity.” Traders, FY 2014/15 has been a great year for the markets with over 30% increase in the benchmark Nifty index. There have been stocks that have been multi-baggers and there have been laggards as well. With a few days left for the end of […]
Traders, For User Settings, use the shortcut key Ctrl+P or just click on View -> User Settings. General On General settings, you have an option to choose how long each session is valid for, after which the program automatically locks itself to avoid any kind of security breach. You can Reconcile from this window or use […]
Traders, Adding stocks/indices to the Marketwatch Use the dropdown to add any stock/contract you wish. To add an index on the marketwatch, select indices in the dropdown. Once the index is added, you can open the chart for the same. Note: Currently you can open only one marketwatch and add a maximum of 50 scrips. We’ve […]
Traders, Advanced charting without any cost for data is one of the big pluses of Pi. We have 10 chart types with over 80 indicators. Over the last few months, our clients testing Pi have requested for a lot more indicators. We will start adding them soon. This post will talk about all the basics of […]
Shortcuts keys on Pi Functionality Shortcut Keys Change Password Ctrl+Shift+F9 Exit Alt+F4 Buy Order F1 or Alt+F1 Sell Order F2 or Alt+F2 Cover Order Buy Shift+F1 Cover Order Sell Shift+F2 After Market Order Buy Ctrl+F1 After Market Order Sell Ctrl+F2 Order Book F3 Trade Book F8 Admin Positions F11 Cash Position Ctrl+Shift+V Stock Holding Alt+F9 User […]
Traders, Do read the introduction post on Pi. To have Pi enabled on your trading account, you have to be an active client with us. Active clients are those with at least Rs 10,000 in their trading account, or who have executed at least 30 trades in the last 6 months, or 20 trades in the last 3 […]
Traders, Pi is our new in-house desktop trading application built in partnership with Tradelab, a young financial technology business building some cutting edge trading products. Our Journey – Trading Platforms Back when we started in August 2010 we were bootstrapped, and the only way we could get the business rolling with limited capital and work at […]
Fellow Traders & Investors, Greetings from Varsity@Zerodha! We are happy to inform you that the module on Futures is finally done. The futures module consumed a little more time than what we initially anticipated, apologies for this and thank you for patiently waiting for the content. We are now all geared to start work on the […]
Traders, You would see a pie chart like below when logged into your Q. The chart gives you a quick overview of the value of your equity and commodity accounts with us. The following should help in better understanding how to use this chart. Equity Cash Balance This shows the total cash present in your trading account. The […]
Traders, Over the years, we have constantly through our various initiatives like ZConnect, Trading Q&A, and Varsity, tried to share knowledge, and help grow the Indian Trading and Investing community. A similar organization is ATMA (Association of Technical Market Analysts), a non-profit organization for financial technical analysts. The main objective of ATMA is to promote […]
Traders, Pi, our proprietary trading platform is now accessible to everyone who has an account with Zerodha. It has all the features you could expect in a modern trading platform. Check out https://zerodha.com/pi. Why Pi Bridge? With Pi we are trying to introduce the concept of coding and backtesting strategies. “Tradescript” the scripting language on Pi is intended […]
Traders, We had over 1000 people test Pi over two months in October/November. We took suggestions and feedback and today launched the final “beta” release of Pi. This was released to around 100 of our clients today, and over this week will be released to over 5000 of our clients who have requested for the […]
Fellow Traders & Investors, Greetings from Varsity@Zerodha, It has been a month since “Varsity@Zerodha” – our online ‘Market Finance’ education initiative went live. The journey so far has been quite overwhelming; kindly allow us to share some numbers with you… 124 – The number of countries from which people have visited Zerodha’s Varsity 148 – The number of […]
Traders, Find following the official trading holiday calendar for 2015 on NSE & BSE for Equity and F&O segments. 1st Jan 2015, is not a holiday on any of the exchanges. Trading holidays, 2015 – NSE & BSE – “Equity and F&O” s# Holidays Date Day 1 Republic Day January 26 Monday 2 Mahashivratri February […]
Traders, Continued from PI – Overview and Feedback. Click here to watch the video on youtube. We will soon have a dedicated section on Z-Connect for Pi to help you understand all features and functionality. We are probably 3 to 4 weeks away from the final release of Pi, and thanks to all of you who […]
Finance is actually very simple, but it’s made to look complicated to justify fees – Morgan House on fool.com Dear Traders & Investors, The digital age has transformed the way in which we perform our day-to-day activities – be it reading books, watching movies, or trading stocks. Technology has penetrated in every aspect of our […]
Traders, If you are looking at Quant for the first time, I’d suggest you to start with Quant – Time Based Analytics and Equity Curve. Quant – Market Trends Every trader has his or her favorite contract/stock, but have you ever wondered if that is actually your most profitable one? Quant – Contract wise will help you figure […]
Updated post on October 1, 2015, after winning the award for the second year in a row. First time for FY 14 on November 1, 2014, and second for FY 15 on September 30, 2015. Fellow Traders & Investors, November 1, 2014 It gives us great pleasure in letting you know that your brokerage, Zerodha […]
Traders, If you are following us on Zerodha Circulars, you are probably already aware of the revision in F&O lot sizes for a bunch of contracts on NSE. This post will answer any query that you may have on how this circular could impact you. Firstly, why are the lot sizes reduced/revised? SEBI has prescribed to the […]
Traders, If you are looking at Quant for the first time, I’d suggest you to start with our introduction on Quant – Time Based Analytics and Equity Curve. There are traders who perform better in bullish markets compared to bearish, and vice-versa. Do you know which category you fall in? The new Quant – Market Trends will help you figure […]
Continued here – Pi Overview and Feedback Part 2 Traders, For all those interested in testing Pi, do fill up this survey form. Only trading on NSE- EQ, F&O and Currency allowed. We have over 200 people beta testing Pi (our new trading platform) currently. We will get more on board very soon. The following […]
Traders, One of the best ways to improve your probability of winning while trading is by learning from your own trading history. Like they say, ”those who forget the history, are most likely going to repeat it”, a mistake often committed by traders. This could be either because of no access to tools/technology or not […]
To learn more about options, check out this module on Varsity. The Framework In this three part series, we introduced the Option Greeks in the first post. In the second post, we discussed the practical Application of Option Greeks with respect to options trading. In this concluding post, we will understand the usage of an option calculator. […]
A full page feature on the journey of Zerodha till now on “Economic Times” The year was 2009. Nithin Kamath, a 29-year-old stock trader, was badly in need of funds to roll out a business idea: an internet broking platform that offered significantly lower brokerage rates than the industry. Read the entire […]
