Today, more than 70% of our daily trades come from our mobile apps. If you had asked me to guess five years back, it wouldn’t have been anywhere close to this. It seemed unlikely then that active day traders would use mobile phones to trade. Kite mobile changed that. Now, Kite 3 mobile is here, […]
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Our tech team has been working on Console – our reporting tool for the last two years, and it has been a grind covering for all the edge cases. It is probably the only platform that includes P&L and the average price even for stocks transferred in from another demat, all types of corporate actions, […]
Open Interest (OI) is an essential factor to track when actively trading F&O contracts or their underlying stocks. You can check this chapter on OI on Varsity to learn more. Change in OI indicates the strength of the price move, as explained in Varsity. All trading platforms display only the current OI on any contract, […]
Hello from Sensibull! We are an options trading platform built on top of Kite offering tools to optimise your trades. You can access Sensibull from within Kite. Click on the ‘…’ button on Kite and click on ‘Option chain’. The option chain, as I explain later in this post, is free for all Zerodha users. […]
According to the exchange circular (PDF), beginning August 15, 2024, brokers are prohibited from paying referral commissions to individuals not registered as an Authorised Person (AP). As a result, Zerodha will not be permitted to pay the 10% brokerage generated by referrals through the referral programme from August 25, 2024, until the exchange provides further […]
P&L statements typically display charges on an overall basis. So if you search between a time period, you’d see total charges across all trades in that period. Along with this, on Console, we now have scrip-wise charges. This means that you will be able to see what portion of the overall charge was due to […]
Traders, Sentinel is the most advanced price alert engine out there. These alerts can be tagged to orders for easy one-click execution whenever triggered. Sentinel never had its moment in the sun as the advanced features were behind a paywall. Starting today everything on Sentinel is absolutely free, hopefully, all of you will help to […]
Dear investors, After we made Coin completely free (waived off the Rs 50 / month subscription charges) in August 2018, investing in direct mutual funds on Coin has kept getting better. Effective today, DP (Demat) charge of Rs 5.5 per mutual fund redemptions will be no longer applicable! Here’s why direct mutual funds are always […]
Less than 1.5 crore Indians invested in the stock markets last year, out of which less than 70 lakh directly into stocks. For an economy like ours to truly reach its potential, we need people to back entrepreneurs by investing in their companies be it directly (stocks) or indirectly (mutual funds). We rely too much […]
Investors, Mutual funds are a wonderful way to start investing. Direct mutual funds more so, because you pay 0 commissions, which otherwise you would have from your pocket. 🙂 But if you are new to mutual funds, navigating the maze of over 2000 funds can become overwhelming. We’ve always tried to educate investors about mutual […]
Traders, Zerodha, from its inception, has used the professional clearing (PCM) services of ISSL (IL&FS Securities Services Ltd, SEBI Reg No: INF231133630) for Equity, Currency, and Commodity derivative segment on NSE. As of today 22nd March 2019, we are shifting from third-party clearing to self-clearing under Zerodha Broking Ltd (SEBI Reg No: INZ000031633) and Zerodha […]
Traders, If you are investing or trading, you would need to declare your profits and losses for the financial year (FY) while filing your income tax returns (ITR). All equity investments under the head of capital gains, intraday equity trading as a speculative business, and derivatives trading as non-speculative business income. Check out the Varsity […]
Traders, Order placement speeds have gone up significantly after the recent update. Along with it, we have introduced a couple of new features on the Kite web, and will soon be available on Kite mobile 3.0 slated to go live in the next few days. Instant order status notifications On Kite, whenever you place orders, […]
Dear Traders, We are extremely sorry about the issues that you faced today morning on our trading platforms. We have identified what caused today’s issue and hopefully should not repeat going forward. Let me explain what went down today. At the market opening, especially between 9.14 to 9.20 we have an exceptional amount of activity […]
Traders, Our personal question based 2Factor login system has been a long pending headache. We’ve been unable to replace it for the longest time due to 3rd party legacy systems, but that is now behind us. The new login system provides significant usability and security improvements. Instead of guessable questions and answers, you can now […]
Traders, The option chain on Kite, powered by Sensibull, now has historical OI analysis. You can now enter a time period and will be able to track how much the open interest (OI) on Calls/Puts on any particular underlying has changed over that period. Currently, the option chain can be accessed only on Kite web, […]
Traders, We have introduced a new feature on the Kite web context menu. With Technicals powered by Streak, you can now quickly have a technical view on a security based on the most popular indicators. Currently, available on Kite web, you will soon see this utility on Kite 3.0 mobile slated to launch soon. How […]
Traders, We are now the largest brokerage firm in India, both by the number of active clients and the trading turnover on the exchanges. The entire Zerodha team and I are extremely grateful to all of you who have trusted us to be your brokerage firm. We were also recently awarded the best retail brokerage firm […]
Investors & Traders, 2018 has been a flat year for our markets, but quite big for us at Zerodha – thanks to all of you! Here are some of the highlights. Kite, smallcase, Streak, and Coin have all gotten a brand new update. Sensibull, Coin, Sentinel, Stockreports+, LearnApp, and G-Sec investing have been the new […]
Traders, With Sentinel, you can create real-time market alerts that reside on the cloud. These alerts, unlike other platforms, remain active until they are triggered, even if your device is inactive. Sentinel has been live for 6 months and is now a whole lot better with the launch of baskets. You can now use triggers […]
Traders, I am super thrilled to let you know that we have been awarded the “Best retail brokerage firm in India for 2018” by the National Stock Exchange (NSE). This wouldn’t have been possible without your support. Thank you. I end up being the face for the business as always, but all of this is […]
Hello Traders, The list of trading holidays for the calendar year 2019 has been announced by BSE. Here’s a one-page list of all trading holidays for NSE & BSE. Holidays Date Day Mahashivratri March 04, 2019 Monday Holi March 21, 2019 Thursday Mahavir Jayanti April 17, 2019 Wednesday Good Friday April 19, 2019 Friday General […]
Traders, Thanks to our Tech team and all partner startups who have leveraged our brokerage as a service model, we have been able to build many products over the last few years. Hopefully, you are enjoying using them as much as we are building it for you. With so many products, one of our biggest challenges […]
Investors, We Indians love fixed income instruments, hence over Rs 110 lakh crores sit in bank fixed deposits (FD) and over Rs 10lk crores (over 50% of total MF AUM) in debt mutual funds. What most of us don’t know are the various alternatives that exist which are better than bank FD’s, namely Government Securities […]
Note: Zerodha has stopped supporting Stockreports+, and new subscriptions will not be accepted. Existing subscribers can use Stockreports+ till their subscription expires. Investors, From the time we went zero brokerage for equity investing in Dec 2015, our client base has grown by over 10 times. A majority of the new clients joining us are investors, […]