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Nikhil sharing his view on the market – Zee business channel 

Traders, Note: We have stopped supporting this tool. Have you ever pondered on who probably knows the best about a business, Fundamental Analysts, Technical Analysts, or the promoters/people running it? Flashback to the Satyam incident. Do you think Ramalinga Raju or his close associates leading into the impending announcement, would have been holding onto their personal […]

Dear fellow traders, It is our constant endeavour to improve on every aspect of our business, and here are some of the latest updates in our quest to be the best. 1. Launch of our revamped website — Let us know what you think on our FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Google+ pages. 2. Launch of the […]

Zerodha SPAN featured – Tech tools in Hindu Business line, to know how to use check this blog. Do you trade in future and options? As a Futures & Options (F&O) trader, you may want to know the margins you require ahead of making a trade. However, margins vary depending on factors such as the […]

  Traders, Do you have stocks that has been sitting idle in your Zerodha demat account, and would it interest if I told you can earn extra  just by lending those shares? Do you want to take those arbitrage trading opportunities like when futures are at a discount, but you don’t hold the stock to […]

Traders, Review: NCFM (NSE’s certification on financial markets) workbook on Technical analysis Price Discounts Everything ! Technical Analysis is the science or an art of forecasting the direction of prices through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume. Technical Analysts (TA) don’t question the information that can affect the price like a […]

Traders, Zerodha F&O margin Calculator part of our initiative “Zerodha Margins”  is the first online tool in India that let’s you calculate comprehensive margin requirements for option writing/shorting, futures and multi-leg F&O strategies when trading equity, F&O, Currency and Commodity on NSE and MCX respectively. The calculator will ensure that you never have the following queries again […]

Traders, HSBC announced shutting down its brokerage business yesterday and this information is all over the news today. Firstly, for all the HSBC clients who might be in shock, business continues as usual for now until the management announces the date for closure of operations. HSBC had acquired the brokerage business from IL&FS back in […]

Landscape of retail broking in absence of these pioneers?    Traders, Indiainfoline, India’s largest retail brokerage firm announcing its decision to wind up retail broking has come as a shocker on the back of the recent announcement from HSBC shutting down their retail brokerage business after buying it form IL&FS a few years ago. Indiabulls, […]

Dear Fellow Traders, Muhurat Trading: The customary trading tradition on the day of Diwali is unique to India where markets open for a short duration to pay obeisance to Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity (Lakshmi Puja). Lots of traders and market old hands use Deepawali (Lakshmi Puja) as a reference point to […]

Coverage in Pune Media after the recent interaction of Nithin with various members of the press.

Nikhil Kamath explains Federal Reserve and it’s importance on Nifty and Sensex. Love it or hate it; but you cannot ignore it. That is the Federal Reserve for you. Words like taper, QE, Fed are peppering most stock market conversation these days and are also the perpetrators of huge doses of volatility in recent times. […]

Traders, If you are planning to open an account as a Partnership Firm, Company, or HUF with us, the following post explains the process and documentation required. Note: (T) : Document required to open a Trading Account. (T+D): Documents required to open a Trading & Demat Account. (C): Documents required to open a Commodity Account. […]

Federal Reserve, Quantitative Easing (tapering), Repo rate – Rise & Fall of Sensex/Nifty For most people, the Federal Reserve invokes confusion and a whole lot of derision. We keep hearing and reading about how capital markets around the world track what they are doing. It is especially important for all of us to know, since […]

Nithin Kamath Founder/CEO of Zerodha, talks to Money Mantra about Zerodha and growth of e-commerce in India. CLIENTS Discount brokerage services are a popular concept in developed countries. Even some of the largest brokerage houses in the world are heavily into discount brokerage services and generate a high fraction of their revenue from this segment. However, the concept […]

Traders, The objective of the 60-Day Challenge is to be a constant reminder that we are all in this business of trading to make profits and not just for the heck of trading. The profitability of our clients during the period of the challenge has notched up considerably (over 60%) and this has given us […]

Traders, G. Bharadwaj is one of our oldest clients and has been consistently profitable. If I had to talk about percentage returns in terms of capital in his trading account over the last 3 years, it will be an obscene number, mainly because of his trading style. He has requested us to not disclose his […]

How much should I pay for a Dollar next year? Imagine your friend getting admission to Computer Science at MIT in the USA for next year. He has to pay a tuition fee of 1000 Dollars. He wants it in September 2014, at the time of admission. The recent rise of Dollar against the Rupee […]

Traders, What is Short Delivery? Equity delivery based trading in India works on a T+1 rolling settlement cycle. What this means is that when you buy shares on, say, Monday (also called T day), you get the shares on Tuesday (T + 1 day). Similarly, if you sold the shares on Monday, you are required […]

Traders, Open Interest, MaxPain and Put Call ratio are some of the most misunderstood topics amongst beginner/amateur traders; below is our attempt to simplify these concepts for you: 1.What do you mean by Open Interest (OI) in futures and options? Futures and options are contracts and similar to any other contract it is a contract […]

“Blessed is he who has reached the point of no return and knows it, for he shall enjoy living”  – – W. C. Bennett ! Appreciating the Moment Have you ever lost yourself in a trade? You focus intensely on your screen and wait for the ideal time to enter. You’re fully attentive as you […]

Nithin Kamath, Founder and CEO of Zerodha speaks to Business Today on what it takes to make a successful trader.   Trading for a living or active trading is a rewarding career , especially because of the financial independence and instant gratification. But a decision to become an active trader has to be made very carefully after […]

Traders, Firstly and most importantly, we as Zerodha are not members on NSEL (National Spot Exchange Limited) and have no direct or indirect exposure to it. This situation at NSEL affects us in no way. Coming back to the issue, there is a lot written which is not really in a layman’s language, so here […]

Traders, Find following an interaction with Rajesh, who’s very nifty trading options on the Nifty. He was not only the winner in the first challenge but is also presently up over 100%, 20 days into the second challenge. What makes him special is also the fact that he was up over 150% in the last […]

This post is out dated. Please refer to our Brokerage Calculator. Traders, One of the most commonly asked queries to our MCX commodity support team is how much money do I make or lose for every 1 Rupee movement in the commodity. So find following a table which you can use as a ready reckoner: […]