Expiry for all Bank Nifty monthly and quarterly expiry contracts has been revised to Wednesday from the current Thursday with effect from March 1, 2024. Read more.

To encourage greater participation in Government Bonds (G-Secs), Treasury Bills (T-Bills), Sovereign Green Bonds (SGrB), and State Development Loans (SDLs), we are waiving the 0.06% brokerage fee beginning March 1, 2024. To learn more about government bonds:

Introduction to Government Bonds.

Video on how to invest in Government Bonds on Kite.

Note: A minimum of 1 paise will be charged per contract note because, under taxation rules, a service cannot be provided for an absolute zero fee.

After the Chinese loan apps scam, the latest scam from actors in China and other Asian countries is phishing websites. Fraudsters are creating hundreds of websites and trading apps that look similar to the websites of Indian brokers.

Unwitting users who click on the app download links, etc., will be prompted to download the fake app. The goal is to get people to transfer money by taking advantage of their familiarity with these apps.

This is just another one of the hundreds of international scams that have exploded in the last few years. In this case, a few tips Nithin shared earlier to protect yourself from scams also apply. Read more.

If you’re thinking of adding gold to your portfolio, the latest issue of Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGB) is now open for investment.

– Issue period: 12th to 16th February 2024
– Issue price: ₹6213 (after ₹50 discount)

You can invest in SGBs on Kite here.

To learn more about SGBs, check out this video.

You can now view the day’s High-Low bar in the latest version of the Kite app.

The High-Low bar gives you a visual representation of where the stock is trading compared to the day’s high and low prices.

To check, tap on any scrip in the marketwatch and scroll up.

We’ve optimised our payout process to ensure our users receive their payouts quickly. Users who have submitted a withdrawal request, have sufficient funds, and have not traded or have any open positions on the payout processing day will have the funds transferred to their bank accounts on the same day.

We are also working to make withdrawals instant.

Between 50,000 and 80,000 crores of assets are unclaimed across demat accounts, mutual funds, insurance, etc. This is because most investors don’t add nominees to their investors. In fact, 72% of Individual investors don’t have a nominee for their demat accounts and mutual fund folios. Even if investors do add nominees, they don’t tell their nominees.

Life is unpredictable, and anything can happen. It’s not a pleasant thought, but making sure life is as comfortable as possible for your loved ones in your absence is a key part of life.

Adding nominations to all your investments, bank accounts, insurance policies, etc and informing your nominees makes life less complicated for them. Otherwise, they’ll have to undergo lengthy legal procedures, delays and additional costs.

At Zerodha, we have a single nomination for all your investments in stocks, mutual funds, bonds, etc. Adding nominees is also fully online and takes a few minutes. Here are the steps.

Here are the current yields on Treasury bills (T-bills) and Government bonds (G-Secs). The entire yield curve looks flat.

In other words, the difference between the yield on shorter-maturity bonds and longer-maturity bonds is negligible.

What does this mean? Broadly, you can assume two things:

– Since there’s no duration premium i.e., you are not getting a higher yield for investing in longer maturities, you can stick to shorter-duration bonds.
– If you expect interest rates to go down going forward, you can lock in the yields on the longer-duration bonds. If and when the interest rates fall, you stand to make capital gains.

In case you missed it, you can invest in Treasury bills (T-Bills), Government bonds (G-Secs) and State Development Loans (SDLs) on both Kite web and the app. Just click on “Bids” and then “Govt. securities.”

Check this post on TradingQnA for an explainer on bond basics.

After a recent backend revamp, we delivered 1.5+ million PDF e-mail contract notes in less than 25 minutes at the end of the trading day. We have been incrementally improving the performance of customer-facing features on Kite and Console as well, and we have more behind the scenes enhancements in the coming months. You can follow all the product updates here: https://zerodha.com/z-connect/updates

Gift Nifty (previously SGX Nifty) is a futures contract based on the Nifty 50 index that trades at the NSE International Exchange for 20 hours.

This contract is a popular way for traders to see the potential impact of overnight and early morning global events on Nifty.

Search “Gift Nifty” to add to the marketwatch.

You can also bookmark this page to track Gift Nifty.

Here’s how Sensex has fared leading up to the budget and after the budget over one month period. Check out all the data points here.

If you are trading on the budget day, here are a few things to keep in mind.

One of the best ways to teach your child about the basics of money is to get them involved early. This is because we learn some of our most important money lessons when we are young—lessons that stick with us for life. The one thing we also wanted to do was help parents save and invest in a simple and easy way for their kid’s future. We’re happy to announce that you can now open a Zerodha account for your kids online and invest in stocks, mutual funds, and bonds with your kids. Read more

2023 has been a phenomenal year for Varsity. We kickstarted many new initiatives with a long-term vision. We finally expanded the Varsity content team from 1 to 5 🙂. While Varsity always had content in the form of text, we are now complementing our text content with simple YouTube videos done in both Hindi and English. Read more

2023 was an interesting year, to say the least. Given the new year, it’s a good time to reflect on the year that has passed. There’s always craziness in some corners of the markets. It’s a good idea to look back on some of the crazy things and learn a little. We learn so that we can ignore the lessons and make the same old mistakes in unique ways. Read more

We are happy to announce that Streak is now accessible to all Zerodha users. You can run scanners, place direct orders, backtest strategies, and virtually deploy strategies in live markets. We have a new simplified UI for both scanners and strategies and have rebuilt our core tech for a super fast experience. Read more

2023 was a busy year for us at Zerodha, with the majority focus on backend and behind-the-scenes changes; be it technology, operations, compliance, or customer support. Our 13th year was dedicated to streamlining, overhauling and refactoring the behind-the-scenes systems, and R&D, paving the way for several new products and features we have in the pipeline. Read more

If you are looking to gift something to your loved ones, we think stocks, ETFs, and bonds are the perfect gifts, and they are quite literally gifts that keep on giving. They are also a great way to introduce your loved ones to investing and capital markets and in turn, help in the financialization of our country. Read more

We are happy to announce the launch of Zero1! by Zerodha, a new YouTube channel that aims to have a fun take on finance lessons and education that we have always offered through our educational initiatives. We are building the channel in partnership with LearnApp, our collaborator of many years. LearnApp has extensive experience in creating high quality financial videos and courses, all the way from serious to fun. Read more.

If you want debt exposure in your portfolio, government bonds are the safest option. Treasury bills (T-bills), GOI dated bonds (G-Secs), and State development loans (SDLs) were available for investment on Coin, but we have now moved them all to Kite. Click here to invest.

With Sensibull, you can build strategies, create virtual portfolios, view option chain, open Interest, analyse positions, and much more. Sensibull is now free for all Zerodha customers. Read more