when you buy options the max you can lose is the premium you have paid. But to get a sense of risk and how fast or easily you can lose, you should look at the exposure or contract value...

80% of all open buy option positions at the end of every day are in losses...

What most traders don't realize is that they pay a good chunk of their capital as costs...

When you're in a drawdown while trading, the best thing to do is to take a break...

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

Stoked about the new tagging feature on Console...

The decision to trade should have multiple checkboxes, can’t just be one...

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.

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...

Can 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.

Is 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.

To get the next 10 crore Indians, the traditional financial product might not work. Here's what I think is needed to get these people to start saving and investing.

A question I have been asking institutional investors in both private and public markets is - if they could enter and exit their holdings at will like retail investors(which they ...

The penny stock Nudge introduced in March on Kite has helped us reduce penny stock trading volume significantly. It has given us hope that the bunch of new nudges we ...

Contrary to what most people think, it is much tougher to sit on a profitable trade vs loss-making. All decent traders have a defined stop to handle losing trades. When ...

Learnings from interactions with thousands of traders and my own successes and failures.