19
Mar 2021
Musings
An assorted collection of thoughts on business, finance, and life. Browse by tags.
16
Mar 2021
A nudge to stop people from losing money in Rights Entitlements
zerodha.comMany retail investors buy Rights Entitlements (REs) without knowing that the value of REs will be zero if they don't apply...
15
Mar 2021
My view on reduction of intraday leverages
twitter.comMy view on the reduction of intraday leverages is that there will be near-term pain (for Zerodha too). We'll see a drop in trading volumes and an increase in impact cost...
11
Mar 2021
Trading with other people’s money
zerodha.comManaging other people's money in ways that aren't allowed leads to the most complaints with the regulators. There are ways to do it legally, and those that can incur significant penalties. Here's all that you need to know about managing money.
08
Mar 2021
Enabling women to start making financial decisions
twitter.comThis video from Paytm captures what we need to do most as a country...
07
Mar 2021
Making taxes easy with Vishvajit Sonagara of Quicko
twitter.comA misconception among traders is that you need to file ITR only if you make a profit. Many also don't file since it's quite complex, but...
03
Mar 2021
Spending on brand name keywords
twitter.comStartups and small businesses end up spending a lot of money wastefully on Google ads on their brand name keywords. Hopefully, the recent Delhi HC order prohibiting brands from doing this might set a precedent...
19
Feb 2021
Yearly demat account growth for the last 20 years
twitter.comThe last boom & bust was in 2007-08, took 10 yrs to get back to those numbers...
18
Feb 2021
How big was Jan 2021 for the broking industry?
twitter.comPutting the current new investor growth in context...
17
Feb 2021
Being at the right place at right time and surviving
twitter.comZerodha probably started when I started trading 15 years before 2010...
16
Feb 2021
10
Feb 2021
The Gamestop saga and lessons for retail investors
twitter.comIn the Gamestop saga, the media has loved telling the story of how Retail made a lot of money from Hedge funds. The reality is entirely different, almost everyone apart from retail has probably made money or benefited from this...
09
Feb 2021
Rising financial awareness among Indians
twitter.comFinancial awareness about the importance of saving and investing in India is increasing at the fastest rate ever, especially among millennials...
02
Feb 2021
Free & open-source software (FOSS) — one of the reasons behind Zerodha's success
twitter.comFree & open-source software (FOSS) is the main reason for the success of Zerodha as K writes.
28
Jan 2021
Shorting and Indian Capital Markets
zerodha.comCan retail traders are cause a “short squeeze” in India like they did in stocks like GameStop and AMC entertainment in the US? It cannot, and I explain why in this post. Join the discussion on Trading Q&A.
22
Jan 2021
Beyond misleading trading turnover numbers — the actual size of Indian capital markets?
twitter.comLooking at trading turnover to estimate capital market size is misleading. Most trades are leveraged & ideally we should look at the margins being traded, not the trade value...
07
Jan 2021
Introducing the Rainmatter Foundation
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Jan 2021
The fallacy of predictions
twitter.comEven after all my years of experience, I couldn't have been more wrong in predicting the direction of our business in 2020. These expert predictions should be taken with a ...
28
Dec 2020
Is trading the markets gambling?
twitter.comIs trading the markets gambling? I get asked often. My answer is that yes, you can gamble when trading, just like you can gamble with everything else in life.
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Dec 2020
