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Here’s the trading/stock market holiday calendar for 2022 for equity and F&O segments.   Holiday Date Day Republic Day January 26, 2022 Wednesday Mahashivratri March 01, 2022 Tuesday Holi March 18, 2022 Friday Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar Jayanti/ Mahavir Jayanti April 14, 2022 Thursday Good Friday April 15, 2022 Friday Eid-Ul-Fitr (Ramzan ID) May 03, […]

Over the last 4 years, we have spent a lot of time listening to our users and taking continuous feedback from everyone. After spending months on user research combined with all the inputs, we are finally thrilled to announce Streak’s Version 4 Website. This version is a major upgrade from the previous Version 3 and […]

Hindi: इस पोस्ट को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें। The world of investing has evolved significantly from when Benjamin Graham first wrote Intelligent Investor (1949), where he spoke about investing only in value stocks with sufficient margin of safety (intrinsic value > market value), to now where high growth startups are getting […]

Wishing you all a Happy and prosperous Diwali from all of us here at team Zerodha! As has been our tradition, there won’t be any brokerages for trades executed in the Muhurat trading session. We also have some exciting offers and discounts on all our partner products this Diwali. Along with these offers, we’ve also […]

Hindi: इस पोस्ट को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें। You can now add single or multiple nominees to your trading & demat account completely online on Console. We will alert your nominee(s) over email/SMS if your account becomes dormant after one whole year of inactivity and you do not activate it by […]

Hey there! We are super thrilled to present our all-new positions page for you- free for a while! This page will always be free and be accessible to all users without any charge. The analysis of positions from this page will also be free. Only the Greeks and such will be paid whenever it goes […]

Over the last couple of weeks, many traders have been sharing screenshots of trades being executed far away from the current market price in F&O contracts on social media, referred to by many as “freak” trades. These incidents are especially around index F&O contracts. I will explain why there has been an increase in such […]

Happy Independence Day! Aug 15th, 2010 happens to be the day we started Zerodha, which means we turn 11 today 🙂 The past year, 2020-2021, has been highly eventful, to say the least. Society changed in unexpected ways, as did the industry, bringing a large influx of new traders and investors. To adapt to the […]

Over my past 20 years in the markets, I have interacted with many retail traders, in various capacities. And one thing I’ve seen that leads retail investors to consistently lose money is option buying. The main reason for this is traders usually transition from trading stocks or futures to trading options. And so, they end […]

Over-trading is the biggest destroyer of capital when actively trading the markets. The trading frequency is usually inversely proportional to profitability for most traders. This means that when in a drawdown or making losses, the average number of trades are significantly higher than when making profits. Good traders typically either reduce their trading size significantly […]

We launched Console 2.0 earlier this year, a complete rewrite of our entire backoffice and reporting system from scratch. While many assume that generating various types of reports is simple, it isn’t, especially when dealing with huge amounts of data across millions of customers and regularly dealing with complex edge cases such as arbitrary corporate […]

In light of recent events, we’ve received several questions from our clients about how we ensure the security of your account at Zerodha. We’ve explained the security practices we adhere to in this post. We are extremely cautious and security as a practice is baked into our processes when writing code and when managing our […]

Traders, If you hold stocks or mutual funds in your portfolio that have unrealised losses, you can set off these losses against realised profits on which you have to pay taxes. To do this, you can book the losses, effectively reducing the realised gains and hence also reducing the tax payable. This act of booking […]

Rights – A basic overview Before we understand Rights Entitlements, let’s quickly understand what a rights issue is.  In a rights issue, a company gives its existing shareholders the right to buy more of its shares at a discounted price. The rights share being issued by the company may either be a fully-paid share or […]

Greed and the ill-conceived lure of quick money is the biggest enabler of trading activity in the markets. Those who trade constantly try finding ways to make more by increasing their trading capital. And those who don’t, lured by greed, are constantly seeking out someone to trade on their behalf or manage their money.  Like […]

Today at around 10:06 AM on 24th Feb 2021, NSE exchange feeds for Nifty, Bank Nifty and other indices stopped across all brokerage firms in India. But trading continued until 11:40 AM, after which NSE completely halted trading, with no prior warnings. This was also across all brokerage firms. SEBI has sought a root cause […]

Hindi: इस पोस्ट को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें। In May 2020, the depositories introduced a new process for clients to authorise the debit of securities from their demat accounts against a delivery sale transaction by entering a TPIN. The new process made a physical Power of Attorney for the demat account, […]

I guess you have read the headlines from the US on how retail traders are causing a “short squeeze” in stocks like GameStop, AMC entertainment, etc. If you haven’t, check this article by Finshots that explains this well. We have been getting a lot of questions around shorting, and if a short squeeze of this […]

I was the first one in my extended middle-class family to take up trading as a career back in the early 2000s. Through my 20’s and early 30’s, I was always told to go get a “real job”. The main reason being, trading stock markets is almost always equated with gambling, at least in India. […]

The list of trading holidays for the calendar year 2021 has been announced by BSE. Here’s a one-page list of all trading holidays for NSE & BSE.   Holidays Date Day Republic Day January 26, 2021 Tuesday Mahashivratri March 11, 2021 Thursday Holi March 29, 2021 Monday Good Friday April 02, 2021 Friday Dr.Baba Saheb […]

Restriction on intraday leverages Peak margin reporting has been brought about to restrict brokers from providing additional leverage over and above what VAR+ELM ( with minimum 20% for stocks) and SPAN + Exposure (F&O – Equity, Commodity, Currency) already offer. Starting Dec 1st, 2020, the maximum intraday leverage that can be offered by a broker […]

NRIs can now buy and hold, on a non-repatriation basis: equity shares, convertible preference shares, convertible debenture, warrants, or units that will be considered domestic investments at par with investments made by residents using their NRO accounts. This eliminates the need for a PIS permission letter, thus opening up a whole lot of new options […]

It’s that time of the year when all of us have to sit down and plan our income tax returns. The last date to file your income tax returns for FY 2019-20 is December 31st, 2020, and traders need to file their Income Tax Returns (ITR) on time. Here’s why: the income tax department has […]

Hindi: इस पोस्ट को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें। We all have been in situations where we’ve spent several hours searching for the right gift for an occasion. Choosing a meaningful gift is never easy. One of the things we’ve wanted to do at Zerodha for a long time was to make […]

Hey there! The US election result is just around the corner. There are many uncertainties surrounding the results, and more importantly, when exactly the results will come out. Sensibull – India’s Largest Options Trading Platform is happy to do this webinar that helps you make sense of US Elections. We will also be answering your […]