Every budget day for the last 15+ years, I've woken up hoping that STT is reduced. Hoping STT reduces this year...

NSE introduced F&O in 2000 & today NSE is the largest derivatives exchange in the world by volume...

One of the biggest Indian fintech opportunities is advisory to help Indians manage their personal finances better...

Over $400billion went out of India to import gold vs $600 billion+ that came in through FPI, FDI & VC. Imagine, instead of gold, some of that money was invested in Indian companies...

Watching famous personalities with huge fan followings trying to trigger investors is quite disgusting..

I'm surprised that, so many are surprised that just 1% of active traders make more than bank fixed deposits over 3 years timeframe. Active trading is like running a business, only a small % succeed...

With mandatory physical delivery for stock options and the removal of the Do Not Exercise (DNE) facility for options (Especially buy options), the risk of huge losses has gone up significantly...

You need to get a CA to validate IT returns (ITR) or get a tax audit if profit when trading is< than 6% of turnover or if the turnover is> Rs 10 crores. This is an anomaly...

What really moves markets? It’s traders & investors making informed & uninformed decisions. Everything else is hocus pocus....

App permissions Zerodha apps ask for...

Buying stocks by borrowing at ~15% & risk of being liquidated in drawdowns, is probably the worst financial product for retail investors...

If financial services businesses are allowed to mis-sell greed & easy + guaranteed returns from risky financial products, it not only harms consumers but it creates a systemic risk...

Extreme events in one direction increase the odds of extreme events in the other...

Most people don't spend time learning trading or forget what they've learnt when placing an order...

Buying more of an asset as it goes down is a common behaviour among retail investors....

With Crypto exchanges offering 10 to 100x leverage on futures, I wonder how these platforms monitor the liquidity position...

In conversation with Howard Lindzon...

The silver lining in these trying times is that people are more open than ever to move out of large cities...

Mis-selling is a more systemic issue, not with one bank but across the board, banks to ed-tech to fintech...

Many retail investors buy Rights Entitlements (REs) without knowing that the value of REs will be zero if they don't apply...