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Application of Option Greeks

To learn more about options, check out this module on Varsity. In the previous post, we discussed the Option Greeks and got a perspective on what they are. An understanding of the previous article is important for this article. In this article we will attempt to help you understand the practical uses of Option Greeks, […]

Head of educational initiatives at Zerodha.
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19 Aug 2014
 

Updates – August 2014

Traders & Partners, We will be celebrating our 4th Anniversary this Independence day, 15th Aug 2014. I will be sending you all our plan of action for this year and some really exciting news soon, but here’s some sweet music to get August started. Clearing charges dropping further to the lowest in the Country Thanks to your […]

Founder & CEO @ Zerodha
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01 Aug 2014
 

Say Hello to The Greeks!

To learn more about options, check out this module on Varsity. Why are the Option Greeks important? What do you think makes a bollywood movie successful at the box office? Chances are you’d say – the success of the movie depends on the lead actors. Well, this is true to some extent. But in reality […]

Head of educational initiatives at Zerodha.
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25 Jul 2014
 

Intro to “Q” – next generation backoffice system

Traders, “Q” is our new reporting/backoffice tool built to be your next generation – trading journal and financial assistant. Some features on the first release other than the fact that it works on all browsers 🙂 are Summary of your account shown using a donut chart Funds page to place/track withdrawal requests Portfolio to track […]

Founder & CEO @ Zerodha
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11 Jul 2014
 

Updates at Zerodha – June 2014

Traders, Here are some of the latest updates at Zerodha… 1. Bracket orders and Trailing Stoploss Bracket orders and Trailing SL are completely functional for intraday trading on Equity, Currency and F&O. When we launched this in April 2014, we were also the first brokerage in India to do so for Currency and F&O. If […]

India's largest broker trusted by 1.5+ crore investors.
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11 Jun 2014
 

Nithin on Young Turks, CNBC TV 18

Zerodha: An online discount broking platform Watch the story of Nithin Kamath and his online trading platform zerodha.com, which is a registered member of all major stock equity, commodity and currency exchanges in India.

India's largest broker trusted by 1.5+ crore investors.
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07 Jun 2014
 

10th Std Pass, Market Wizard from Thrissur

Traders, After putting up the first five interviews of some of our top traders and winners of the Zerodha 60 day Challenge, I was asked many times if engineers have better odds to win at trading, as each one of the five featured until now came from a similar background. The search to break the pattern amongst our winners […]

Founder & CEO @ Zerodha
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22 May 2014
 

Zerodha Featured on FirstBiz

  It was a dream that 33-year-old Nithin Kamath nurtured ever since he entered the stock trading industry as a 17-year-old—of having a good broker. With his venture Zerodha, a Bangalore-based online stock brokerage firm which was started in 2010, Kamath has done just that.  

India's largest broker trusted by 1.5+ crore investors.
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21 May 2014
 

Deciphering NSE’s ‘Execution Range’ circular.

The National Stock Exchange earlier this month rolled out a circular prescribing a ‘reference price’ & and an ‘execution range’ for Futures & Options contracts which was effective from Feb 8th, 2016. There seems to be some confusion in understanding the circular and this is our attempt to decipher it for you. Option trading has been […]

Head of operations and compliance at Zerodha
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10 May 2014
 

Zerodha – Plan of Action – FY 2014/15

Traders, Firstly, here’s wishing you a lot of health, wealth, and happiness for the new financial year – FY 14/15. It is our constant endeavor to create an intellectual and profitable trading community at Zerodha. Over the last 6 months, we have put in a lot of effort to innovate in terms of technology, which […]

Founder & CEO @ Zerodha
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03 Apr 2014
 

Trading Q&A

Traders, Today, we announce the launch of Trading Q&A — tradingqna.com, a new initiative in our quest to empower retail traders & investors with knowledge. In 2012, we started Z-Connect as a way to converse and connect with you and to provide you with up-to-date information on all aspects of trading with us. Soon, Z-Connect […]

India's largest broker trusted by 1.5+ crore investors.
31 Mar 2014
 

Nithin – Winner – CII Emerging Entrepreneur Award 2013

Traders, We take great pride in letting you all know that, our CEO, Nithin Kamath is one of the winners of the prestigious CII (Confederation of Indian Industries) “Emerging Entrepreneur Award for 2013”. The due diligence for this award which involved studying everything from our business model to our financials was done by Grand Thornton and Boston Consulting, and the jury were the who’s […]

India's largest broker trusted by 1.5+ crore investors.
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12 Mar 2014
 

Trading India VIX – Simplified

Traders, NSE will be launching the most anticipated contract in the recent past for trading “Futures on India VIX” on February 26, 2014. We at Zerodha as usual, will be offering you trading on this new product for free until June 1, 2014. Following is our attempt to simplify trading on India VIX for you. […]

Founder & CEO @ Zerodha
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13 Feb 2014
 

Looking for Python Developers

We are Zerodha (Wikipedia), one of the fastest growing financial services companies in India. We are working on some exciting financial technology and products that’ll set new benchmarks in the Indian markets soon! If you are a (full stack would be great!) Python developer with good experience developing web apps, please talk to us. We’re […]

India's largest broker trusted by 1.5+ crore investors.
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11 Feb 2014
 

Nithin Kamath – featured on Udayavani

Zerodha – First brokerage firm from Karnataka to create a national presence. Read the  e-paper , Special Supplement “Isiri”, Page 1 and Page 3.

India's largest broker trusted by 1.5+ crore investors.
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03 Feb 2014
 

Basics – Trading Interest rate futures

Traders, NSE has just relaunched Interest rate futures, and after speaking to other traders and the way the contract is designed, the feeling is that trading action on the newly launched contracts should pick up considerably even in the retail trading community. As traders, I guess we trade anything that moves. I will try to […]

Founder & CEO @ Zerodha
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23 Jan 2014
 

Basics on Options Shorting/Writing

Traders, Option writing/shorting is the act of selling either calls or puts first, hoping that the value goes to zero or buy it back at a lower price to earn a profit. Trading in index options has been surging over the last few years, accounting for almost 75% of the total derivative market turnover on […]

Founder & CEO @ Zerodha
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09 Jan 2014
 

Mr Consistent returning incredible returns

Traders, Madan is part of our illustrious top 25 traders from almost 35000 who trade at Zerodha. He has won 3 challenges in a row, and he is consistent, not very aggressive, and has still managed a return of over 300% in the last 1 year + trading with us on a good sized trading […]

Founder & CEO @ Zerodha
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21 Dec 2013
 

TRADING HOLIDAYS 2014 – NSE, BSE & MCX

Traders, Find following the official list of trading holidays for 2014 on NSE, BSE, MCX-SX and MCX, while trading Equity, F&O, Currency and Commodity. 1st Jan 2014, is not a holiday on any of the exchanges. List of trading holidays for 2014 – NSE, BSE, MCX-SX for “Equity and F&O”   S#  Holidays Date Day […]

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20 Dec 2013
 

Short note on VIX by Nikhil in the HBL

Short Note on VIX by Nikhil in the Hindu Business Line, 2nd Feb 2014. ” VIX is a trademarked symbol for the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Market Volatility Index. It represents the market’s expectation of volatility over a pre-defined period. India VIX is a volatility index based on the Nifty index option prices. From the […]

India's largest broker trusted by 1.5+ crore investors.
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20 Dec 2013
 

Get Hands-on with Zerodha Mobile

Traders, We have introduced newer platforms since this post was published. Check out this user manual for Kite and Kite explainer videos here. We have just released our new mobile application for android, and blackberry. This post will give you an overview on using the app. What platform does Zerodha Mobile (ZM) work on? Android […]

Head of client relations at Zerodha
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18 Dec 2013
 

Give your views, we will pass it on to NSE

Traders, We are pretty active online, and keep hearing complaints on various online communities, blogs, chat rooms, and others on how exchanges and regulators don’t do enough for the retail trading community in India. Here is a chance to have your voice heard! Zerodha is part of a consultative committee setup by the NSE to […]

India's largest broker trusted by 1.5+ crore investors.
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17 Dec 2013