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...

My 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...

Managing 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.

This video from Paytm captures what we need to do most as a country...

The last boom & bust was in 2007-08, took 10 yrs to get back to those numbers...

Putting the current new investor growth in context...

Nikhil Kamath on his journey so far...

In 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...

Financial awareness about the importance of saving and investing in India is increasing at the fastest rate ever, especially among millennials...