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Investment and trading platforms are extremely complex systems. From interfacing with exchange systems via leased lines to numerous systems running on public cloud and physical data centres spread across regions, the real-time complexity and risks are massive. A technical issue anywhere in this chain can cascade and cause disruptions. To mitigate such possibilities, we have […]

When trading options, one of the most important tools you can use is the option chain. It provides a complete view of all available option contracts for a stock or an index, showing key details like strike prices, premiums, open interest, option greeks, and more. The option chain helps traders determine market sentiment, identify trading […]

The Indian F&O market has grown significantly over the past five years, and this has triggered various market reactions. In November 2024, SEBI implemented a range of measures targeted at reducing market volatility, especially from daily index expiries—including limiting weekly expiries to only Nifty and Sensex contracts, increasing the lot size from 5-10L to 15-20L, […]

Trading involves much more than just buying and selling stocks. Traders today have multiple requirements, such as placing large orders without revealing their order size or intent, setting up long-standing orders that work months later, and executing complex strategies that involve taking multiple positions. Which is why we have built advanced order on Kite to […]

We often hear stories of people stumbling upon old share certificates tucked away in cupboards or piles of documents—sometimes worth lakhs. However, the initial excitement usually gives way to a common question: What should I do with these? There was a time when owning shares meant holding actual paper certificates with your name on them. […]

The Margin Trading Facility (MTF) is a service that allows you to buy shares by paying only a portion of the total cost. Zerodha funds the remaining amount, and interest is charged on it. Since launching Margin Trading Facility (MTF) last year, we have been working on making several enhancements to improve your MTF experience. […]

Have you noticed how your Marketwatch gets messier over time? As traders and investors, we usually do not delete items from our watchlists—we just keep adding new stocks and F&O contracts that interest us. When you are keeping an eye on many instruments, scrolling through a long list becomes really hard. Even with multiple watchlists, […]

Before investing in any company, it’s important to do your own research. The problem is, fundamental data like what the company does, the financials, peer comparisons, news, and other parameters and data points are often scattered across different websites. To make your stock research easier, we’ve built Stock Pages powered by Tijori, bringing together all […]

Trading is all about making quick decisions when you spot opportunities. When you see a promising pattern on your charts or when your technical indicators signal a potential trade, you need to act fast. Until now, this meant moving between chart analysis and order placement screens, which required extra steps during important market moments. Trade […]

Kite and Coin are two of our primary transaction platforms. Kite is designed for active traders, while Coin is meant for long-term investors who invest in mutual funds. Given the different use cases and audiences they are aimed at, we have kept both the platforms separate. Combining them would clutter the interface with features only […]

Options traders rely on option chains to spot opportunities and make informed decisions. Think of it as your trading dashboard—showing all available contracts, strike prices, premiums, and market sentiment in one view. We have redesigned the option chain on Kite to bring together market depth, trading, and position tracking all in one place, making it […]

Over the past few months, we’ve been working hard to introduce new features and enhance existing ones to simplify your trading and investing experience. To make sure you don’t miss out, we’ve compiled all the updates for you in this post.

Pledged cash-equivalent securities such as Liquid ETFs, Sovereign Gold Bonds, and Government Bonds can now be sold instantly without waiting to unpledge them.

We’ve updated the Technicals Widget on Kite to give you all the key market information in one place.

Introducing Alert Triggers Order (ATO) feature on Kite. With ATO, you can link a basket of orders to an alert, and as soon as the alert is triggered, your orders are placed on the exchange.

You can now keep all your sensitive information regarding your investments and trading positions hidden using the new Privacy Mode on Kite web.

The new Fundamentals widget gives you a quick fundamental snapshot of stocks, ETFs and indices across metrics such as valuations, revenue breakdown by products and geographies, financials, peer comparison, shareholding pattern and much more.

  The new Streak Scanner allows you to create and run scans across equities, futures, and options using technical indicators and math operators. You can also discover popular prebuilt scanners. Streak Scanner can now be accessed for free for all our users at https://scanners.streak.tech/ Overview of Streak Scanners: Discover Scanners You can browse pre-built scanners […]

An ideal portfolio should have a mix of multiple asset classes like equity, debt, and gold. Diversification helps you reduce risk and behave better. Everybody knows how to get equity exposure, either through stocks or equity mutual funds. But when it comes to debt, most people don’t know all the available options. If you want […]

We first started talking to Abid (Co-Founder & CEO, Sensibull) in 2016 about building a platform that can help options traders do better. Since most people traded naked options, the goal was to nudge them to trade limited risk strategies with appropriate risk to reward and position sizes and even push them to take a […]

  One of the biggest reasons for active traders to lose money is overtrading. And having low brokerage only makes them trade more—something this research paper has explored in detail. While how much brokerage you pay is limited for each order, other charges like STT, exchange transaction charges, stamp duty, impact costs, etc., are levied […]

We’re glad to announce that we’ve finally launched the instant sale of pledged stocks feature on Kite, which has been one of our clients’ most requested features for several years. This was delayed due to system limitations, but we are now live. The previous process for selling pledged stocks was to first unpledge them. An […]

Encouraging greater participation in the auction markets and reducing the impact of auction penalties due to short delivery have been on our to-do for a long time. We have had situations where the losses have been up to 20% due to the lack of liquidity in auction markets. This is because there was no retail […]

Hindi: इस पोस्ट को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें। SEBI, on December 3rd, 2018, released a circular (PDF) highlighting the need for stock brokers and depository participants to maintain robust cyber security and a cyber resilience framework to protect the integrity of data and guard against breaches of privacy. This came into […]

Hindi: Iceberg ऑर्डर और मिनट्स में ऑर्डर की वैलिडिटी से परिचय  Note: Please update the Kite mobile app, if you don’t see the Iceberg order type.  Iceberg is an order type that slices orders of larger quantity (or value) into smaller orders, where each small order, or leg, is sent to the exchange only after […]