Click here for upcoming IPOs You can now apply for new IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) from within Console. Until now, we asked customers to apply for IPOs using the ASBA (Application Supported by ...

Over the last couple of years, there has been a steep rise in the number of platforms that sell “algos” or programs that trade strategies automatically on a client’s behalf. Some of these pla...

There’s nothing new that you can say about investing. The basics – save more, spend less, diversify, keep costs low, and don’t tinker with your portfolio have remained the same for ages. ...

अब आप अपने ट्रेडिंग और डीमैट खाते में एक या उससे ज़्यादा नॉमिनी को Console पर ऑनला...

Hindi: इस पोस्ट को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें। You can now add single or multiple nominees to your trading...

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 po...

India is the second-largest consumer of gold in the world after China. Gold holds a lot of cultural significance for Indians. The average Indian household has over 11% of its wealth in gold and it�...

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 a...

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 chan...

Fintech is hot🔥 right now. Everybody and their grandmother want to do some “fintech”. Q2, 2021 was the best quarter on record for fintech with $33.7 billion in funding – $1 out of ever...

In the past year or so, we’ve seen a huge spike in new investors. While, in general, this new breed of investors are more informed than the previous generation, some of them continue to make the ...

Everything is fintech, and fintech is hot right now. According to CB Insights, Q1’21 was the best quarter on record for fintech, with $22.8 billion in funding. The same story is playing in India....

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 b...

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 i...

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 is...

In September 2020, SEBI notified the new changes to the Registered Investment Advisers (RIA) guidelines. There were a few big and important changes in the new guidelines:  Segregation of advisory ...

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 adher...

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 ...

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 r...

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 capit...

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 ...

मई 2020 में डेपोसिटोरीज़ (जैसे NSDL और CDSL) ने एक नयी प्रक्रिया जारी की थी जिसमे निवे�...

Hindi: इस पोस्ट को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें। In May 2020, the depositories introduced a new process for ...

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 Fins...

We have all heard of the lakhs of crores of Rupees worth of trading turnover that happens in the Indian capital markets every day, creating the illusion that the markets are massive. However, 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 ...