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Update on all our educational content initiatives.

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Some people, jokingly perhaps, say, "Zerodha is a content company." But this isn't something we are doing now...
08 Oct 2024

SEBI's new rules for direct payout of securities

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While SEBI is tightening rules to make the markets safer on the one hand, it is also making things simple on the other...
03 Oct 2024

Impact of SEBI's on new rules for index derivatives

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Here's the potential impact of only one weekly expiry of index derivatives...
01 Oct 2024

Impact of revision in Exchange Transaction Charges and STT

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Equity delivery will continue to be free at Zerodha. As of now, we are not making any changes to our brokerage...
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At the Varsity counter at GFF2024

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No agenda, and only objective of financial education...
26 Aug 2024

The nuisance of fake trading apps

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Fake trading app scams have exploded and have become a mega nuisance...
23 Aug 2024

Celebrating India's first national space day 🇮🇳

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It's a matter of pride that we have many amazing homegrown space startups...
22 -Aug 2024

Why showing percentages on menus could help us eat better

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Seeing calories, protein, carbs, etc., on a menu is a good start. Ideally, we need to see calories as a percentage of daily calories, proteins, etc.
21 -Aug 2024

NSE circular suspending referral programmes

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NSE issued a circular last week stopping brokers from sharing any brokerage as a referral incentive unless that person is registered as an authorized person with the exchanges...
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Why showing percentages on menus could help us eat better

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Seeing calories, protein, carbs, etc., on a menu is a good start. Ideally, we need to see calories as a percentage of daily calories, proteins, etc.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/blog/index.xml b/blog/index.xml index 726a4e57..30511284 100644 --- a/blog/index.xml +++ b/blog/index.xml @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -Musings on Nithin Kamath's personal homepagehttps://nithinkamath.me/blog/Recent content in Musings on Nithin Kamath's personal homepageHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usFri, 26 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000SEBI's new rules for direct payout of securitieshttps://nithinkamath.me/blog/sebis-new-rules-for-direct-payout-of-securities/Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://nithinkamath.me/blog/sebis-new-rules-for-direct-payout-of-securities/While SEBI is tightening rules to make the markets safer on the one hand, it is also making things simple on the other. +Musings on Nithin Kamath's personal homepagehttps://nithinkamath.me/blog/Recent content in Musings on Nithin Kamath's personal homepageHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usFri, 26 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000Update on all our educational content initiatives.https://nithinkamath.me/blog/update-on-all-our-educational-content-initiatives/Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://nithinkamath.me/blog/update-on-all-our-educational-content-initiatives/Some people, jokingly perhaps, say, “Zerodha is a content company.” But this isn’t something we are doing now. We’ve been sharing everything we know about finance, markets, and investing since day 1 of Zerodha in text form—even before “content” was a thing. In fact, Z-Connect is one of the oldest finance blogs in India. +It’s just that now we are publishing a lot more video content across @ZerodhaVarsity, @zerodhamarkets, @zerodhaonline, @Rainmatterin, Zero1 and there’s @nikhilkamathcio’s WTF and @kmr_dilip’s The Other Side as well.SEBI's new rules for direct payout of securitieshttps://nithinkamath.me/blog/sebis-new-rules-for-direct-payout-of-securities/Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://nithinkamath.me/blog/sebis-new-rules-for-direct-payout-of-securities/While SEBI is tightening rules to make the markets safer on the one hand, it is also making things simple on the other. Starting from October 14th, shares bought will be directly credited to the customer’s Demat account through net settlement. This significantly simplifies our DP process, which today involves receiving shares for the entire group of clients and then allocating them based on purchases made, i.e., gross settlement. And this is much safer, too.Impact of SEBI's on new rules for index derivativeshttps://nithinkamath.me/blog/impact-of-sebis-cirular-on-new-rules-for-index-derivatives/Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://nithinkamath.me/blog/impact-of-sebis-cirular-on-new-rules-for-index-derivatives/Here’s the potential impact of only one weekly expiry of index derivatives per exchange and contract sizes going up by around 2.5 times. As things stand, assuming that those trading weekly don’t move on to trading monthly, the impact will be ~60% of overall F&O trades and ~30% of our overall orders. diff --git a/blog/page/10/index.html b/blog/page/10/index.html index eac5497c..2785ebe9 100644 --- a/blog/page/10/index.html +++ b/blog/page/10/index.html @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ Musings - Nithin Kamath's personal homepage

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20 +Feb 2023

The impact of extended trading hours on traders and markets

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Extended trading hours for F&O will maybe signal the maturity of our markets...
14 Feb 2023

A project to spread the health and ecological benefits of millets

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We add millet (ragi) to wheat flour and...
13 Feb 2023

Meeting our PM Narendra Modi

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It was an honour to meet our PM Narendra Modi...
09 Feb 2023

Why Zerodha doesn't have a data team

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How useful is collecting & analysing tons of data...
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The dark side of setting goals

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We've never set goals at Zerodha, be it user growth, revenues, or profits...
22 Dec 2022

Free and open source software (FOSS) has been key to the sucess at Zerodha

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19 Dec 2022

Small change big impact

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88% homes have a fan while 72% have a mattress...
16 -Dec 2022

The importance of financial literacy in schools

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f we taught finance basics in school, like why start investing early, inflation, insurance, retirement planning, etc. These lessons will be helpful throughout life...
14 -Dec 2022

Business updates, increased disclosures and improving transparency

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Almost every brokerage firm, including Zerodha has had a phenomenal last 2.5 years thanks to a raging bull market...
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The importance of financial literacy in schools

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f we taught finance basics in school, like why start investing early, inflation, insurance, retirement planning, etc. These lessons will be helpful throughout life...
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14 +Dec 2022

Business updates, increased disclosures and improving transparency

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Almost every brokerage firm, including Zerodha has had a phenomenal last 2.5 years thanks to a raging bull market...
07 Dec 2022

Thoughts on use cases of RBI's single block and multiple debits on UPI

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RBI's announcement of allowing single block and multiple debits on UPI can potentially have some interesting outcomes...
02 Dec 2022

Most hated all-time high?

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Most hated all-time high? While markets are at all-time highs, the momentum in retail participation and activity is not nearly as much...
30 Nov 2022

Why everyone should pay more attention to India

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Whenever students ask me for advice, I say, stay in India. Not just because we need to avoid the brain drain...
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Can the Indian broking industry continue growing at the same pace?

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Whenever I get asked if @zerodhaonline or the Indian broking...
29 Oct 2022

A few basics of retirement planning

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What Gen Z & even millennials don't think about enough...
28 Oct 2022

Using stock market data feeds in gaming apps

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NSE issues a cease & desist to all stock gaming apps. We had written about this issue on the Rainmatter blog...
25 -Oct 2022

The symbolism behind Goddess Lakshmi sitting on a lotus and Goddess Saraswati sitting on a stone

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As we celebrate Laksmi Puja this Deepavali, here's an interesting anecdote...
20 -Oct 2022

Indian companies incorporated outside inside are flipping back

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Happy to see many companies building for India incorporated outside...
Nithin Kamath © 2021 +Oct 2022

The symbolism behind Goddess Lakshmi sitting on a lotus and Goddess Saraswati sitting on a stone

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As we celebrate Laksmi Puja this Deepavali, here's an interesting anecdote...
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20 +Oct 2022

Indian companies incorporated outside inside are flipping back

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Happy to see many companies building for India incorporated outside...
06 Oct 2022

New quarterly settlement guidelines

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Starting this October 7th, every first Friday of the quarter, all brokerages must transfer unused funds back to the customer's bank account...
01 Oct 2022

Elephants By The Lake

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Elephants by the lake or EBTL was Rainmatter Foundation's first experiment...
30 Sep 2022

Tracking global markets overnight isn't worth losing sleep

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One of the wasteful things that most traders do is to actively track US markets at night...
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12 years of Zerodha

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A few thoughts on the Indian broking industry and updates about Zerodha as we turn 12 years old...
08 Aug 2022

Word of mouth is more valuable than anything paid

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Word of mouth is more valuable than anything paid...
02 Aug 2022

On hacking incidents at Zerodha and measures we're taking

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There has been some noise about the hacking incidents at Zerodha. Here is some data...
28 -Jul 2022

Things to keep in mind when investing in stocks that have seen big price drops

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Every time the prices of retail favorite stocks fall, the number of investors who buy the stock goes up dramatically. Investing is risky & here are some important things retail investors should keep in mind...
26 -Jul 2022

Zerodha tax reports

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Our Tax P&L report has everything to file your ITR—capital gains, speculative & business income, turnover reports, & more...
Nithin Kamath © 2021 +Jul 2022

Things to keep in mind when investing in stocks that have seen big price drops

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Every time the prices of retail favorite stocks fall, the number of investors who buy the stock goes up dramatically. Investing is risky & here are some important things retail investors should keep in mind...
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26 +Jul 2022

Zerodha tax reports

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Our Tax P&L report has everything to file your ITR—capital gains, speculative & business income, turnover reports, & more...
22 Jul 2022

Cybercrime risks when trading

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Thanks to Anil Singhvi and Zee Business for highlighting the cybercrime risks when trading the markets. Cybercrime has gone up across banking to broking to social media...
21 Jul 2022

A little more forest everywhere

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Through Rainmatter Organisation, we support organizations working on climate change issues. But we understand that the biggest impact can be made by individuals...
14 Jul 2022

India FOSS - Fireside chat with Rudra Saraswat: 12 year old linux dev

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When I was 12 years old, I was climbing trees. Talk about evolution...
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Indian markets are much better than the US markets

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We constantly look to the west (US) for everything, but the west has to look to India when it comes to markets. Here are a few reasons why...
07 Jun 2022

Console portfolio visualization

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We're all searching for stocks that always go up. Looking at charts of winners is easy, but picking such stocks is tough...
01 Jun 2022

Spending on own brand keyword ads

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The easiest way for startups & businesses to burn is by advertising on their own brand keywords...
30 -May 2022

Wrong estimates of trading activity, market size and market share

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Even to this day, a lot of people misconstrue the turnover numbers declared by the exchanges...
25 -May 2022

The idea behind Rainmatter Foundation

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Rainmatter Foundation started with the question of what's the point of all this success if we don't have a planet to live on?...
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Wrong estimates of trading activity, market size and market share

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Even to this day, a lot of people misconstrue the turnover numbers declared by the exchanges...
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25 +May 2022

The idea behind Rainmatter Foundation

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Rainmatter Foundation started with the question of what's the point of all this success if we don't have a planet to live on?...
19 May 2022

How large is the Indian market for B2C tech businesses and fintechs by revenue potential?

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How large is the Indian market for B2C tech businesses in terms of users who can generate revenue?...
17 May 2022

Brokerage charges across the indsutry

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We still don't charge brokerage for equity delivery & charge Rs 20 or 0.03% whichever is lower for intraday...
16 May 2022

Stock market scams to move money illegally

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A trader was lured into sharing login credentials on a telegram group by promising high returns...
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Why are billions being invested into Indian non-profitable startups by VCs?

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It is concerning that we have a few customers still buying Sintex shares even after this nudge that the stock price will go to 0 and mandating a TOTP...
01 Apr 2022

Voting on shareholder proposals at Zerodha

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As a shareholder of a company, you are entitled to vote on important company decisions...
31 Mar 2022

Does Option writing have higher odds of profits?

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Does Option writing have higher odds of profits? Yeah, for sure, but only when risk is compared to option buying...
29 -Mar 2022

Startup of the year 2021

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When we win these awards, we get asked, is Zerodha still a startup?...
24 -Mar 2022

Is fractional share investing possible in India?

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Fractional investing or the ability to invest say $10 in Amazon at $3200 has been the biggest reason for stock market participation to go up in the US...
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Startup of the year 2021

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When we win these awards, we get asked, is Zerodha still a startup?...
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24 +Mar 2022

Is fractional share investing possible in India?

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Fractional investing or the ability to invest say $10 in Amazon at $3200 has been the biggest reason for stock market participation to go up in the US...
21 Mar 2022

A nudge to stop people from buying stocks that are going to zero

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It is concerning that we have a few customers still buying Sintex shares even after this nudge that the stock price will go to 0 and mandating a TOTP...
21 Mar 2022

How is Zerodha profitable when most new-age startups aren't?

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We get asked often how is Zerodha profitable when most new-age companies aren't...
15 Mar 2022

Videos on Varsity options trading module

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We know you've been waiting for a long time. Here's the first video of the long-awaited options trading module...
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From Native to React Native to Flutter

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A regular question that comes up is about our use of Flutter for building our mobile apps...
17 Jan 2022

Impact of STT on traders, exchanges and brokerages

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Every budget day for the last 15+ years, I've woken up hoping that STT is reduced. Hoping STT reduces this year...
15 Jan 2022

History of F&O margin requirements in India

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NSE introduced F&O in 2000 & today NSE is the largest derivatives exchange in the world by volume...
14 -Jan 2022

Private market valautions are weird

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While listed high growth, yet to be profitable startups are seeing sharp drops, private market valuations are somehow still holding up. Weird times...
13 -Jan 2022

Advisory is one the biggest Indian fintech opportunity

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One of the biggest Indian fintech opportunities is advisory to help Indians manage their personal finances better...
Nithin Kamath © 2021 +Jan 2022

Private market valautions are weird

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While listed high growth, yet to be profitable startups are seeing sharp drops, private market valuations are somehow still holding up. Weird times...
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13 +Jan 2022

Advisory is one the biggest Indian fintech opportunity

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One of the biggest Indian fintech opportunities is advisory to help Indians manage their personal finances better...
12 Jan 2022

One of the most complex projects at Zerodha

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Building reports like Tax P&L, holdings, turnover reports etc. have been one of the most complex projects at Zerodha...
11 Jan 2022

India is addicted to gold

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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...
06 Jan 2022

Irresponsible influencers

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Watching famous personalities with huge fan followings trying to trigger investors is quite disgusting..
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On "Powered by AI / ML" marketing

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Here is a detailed post by Dr K that draws parallels between AI and Rumali roti...
25 Nov 2021

AI and ML at Zerodha

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I keep getting asked how we use AI/ML/Blockchain at Zerodha...
24 Nov 2021

The moats for banks

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The moat banks have today is that it is very very tough to become a bank. Yeah, you can be a Small Finance Bank, Payments Bank, Neo Bank, but you can never compete with a full-fledged bank due to all the restrictions...
23 -Nov 2021

Permissions asked by finance apps

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App permissions Zerodha apps ask for...
22 -Nov 2021

Buy Now, Pay Later for stocks

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

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App permissions Zerodha apps ask for...
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22 +Nov 2021

Buy Now, Pay Later for stocks

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Buying stocks by borrowing at ~15% & risk of being liquidated in drawdowns, is probably the worst financial product for retail investors...
18 Nov 2021

Crypto and forex ads need to be regulated

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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...
16 Nov 2021

Investing in high growth, low profit businesses

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If you are investing in new-age businesses that aren't profitable yet & carry large risks, here are right questions to ask...
12 Nov 2021

Why not IPO Zerodha?

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We think an IPO is the beginning & not the end. As soon as you have lakhs of conservative retail investors on your cap table, the obligations go up...
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Adoption of organic farming

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Oganic farming yeilds and long term thinking...
08 Oct 2021

Organic farming

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Adoption of organic farming...
01 Oct 2021

Valuation of stock brokerages around the world

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I am pessimistic about the valuations of brokerages...
28 -Sep 2021

FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) at Zerodha

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K & our tech team also contribute back to FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) significantly...
20 -Sep 2021

Illiquidity premium

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I've asked a lot of successful MF, PE & VC managers if they would be able to resist the temptation...
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FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) at Zerodha

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K & our tech team also contribute back to FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) significantly...
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20 +Sep 2021

Illiquidity premium

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I've asked a lot of successful MF, PE & VC managers if they would be able to resist the temptation...
13 Sep 2021

Online nomination and dormant account alerts

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There's at least Rs 80,000 crores of unclaimed money across Banks, Mutual funds, Demats, and more...
09 Sep 2021

Who can disrupt new-age online brokers or even exchanges?

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I get asked often, who out there do you think can disrupt the new-age online brokers or even exchanges...
03 Sep 2021

Partnership with Organic Mandya

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Our focus at Rainmatter foundation is to help create green jobs, livelihoods & help preserve the environment...
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The last 18 months at Zerodha

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The last 18 months at Zerodha have been eventful, to say the least...
12 Jul 2021

The risk for high growth B2C tech IPOs

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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...
09 Jul 2021

Trading is more about managing fear, greed and psychology than entry/exit strategy.

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Trading is more about managing fear, greed and psychology than entry/exit strategy...
08 -Jul 2021

Why look at notional contract value when buying options?

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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...
01 -Jul 2021

Option buying - The riskiest trade

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80% of all open buy option positions at the end of every day are in losses...
Nithin Kamath © 2021 +Jul 2021

Why look at notional contract value when buying options?

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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...
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01 +Jul 2021

Option buying - The riskiest trade

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80% of all open buy option positions at the end of every day are in losses...
28 Jun 2021

Impact of trading costs

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What most traders don't realize is that they pay a good chunk of their capital as costs...
22 Jun 2021

Introducing kill switch

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When you're in a drawdown while trading, the best thing to do is to take a break...
09 Jun 2021

Nudging users to help them avoid mistakes

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Most people don't spend time learning trading or forget what they've learnt when placing an order...
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Right now is probably the stupidest time for fintech firms

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Right now, is probably the stupidest time for fintech firms like Zerodha to be raising money. It is quite crazy the number of folks reaching out & the different deals...
07 Apr 2021

Why you shouldn't raise money just because you can

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Right now, is probably the stupidest time for fintech firms like @zerodhaonline to be raising money. It is quite crazy the number of folks reaching out & the different deals. We might regret it in the future, but we are not raising & here are the counterintuitive reasons why.
03 Apr 2021

Risks of running a brokerage firm

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Being a broker is almost like running an insurance busines. You're one black swan event away from giving back your premiums (brokerage income)...
01 -Apr 2021

Mis-selling is a systemic issue.

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Mis-selling is a more systemic issue, not with one bank but across the board, banks to ed-tech to fintech...
26 -Mar 2021

How to know when odds are higher?

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The decision to trade should have multiple checkboxes, can’t just be one...
Nithin Kamath © 2021 +Apr 2021

Mis-selling is a systemic issue.

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Mis-selling is a more systemic issue, not with one bank but across the board, banks to ed-tech to fintech...
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21 +Aug 2024

NSE circular suspending referral programmes

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NSE issued a circular last week stopping brokers from sharing any brokerage as a referral incentive unless that person is registered as an authorized person with the exchanges...
19 Aug 2024

Misselling of ULIPs and what you can do to avoid being a victim

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ULIP sales have gone up quite a bit over the last year. I'm guessing most ULIPs are sold by banks because of the high commissions on these products...
13 Aug 2024

India needs more IPOs doing well

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IPOs doing well are good because they incentivize more companies to consider an IPO, and attract more retail and institutional investors...
12 Aug 2024

Daily brief podcast

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A personal problem I had was that there wasn't a short ~15 minute podcast that covered the top 3–5 markets and business stories in a given day. There are many in the US, but none in India. So we started The Daily Brief...
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Crypto platforms flaunting rules

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On one side, SEBI is working on restricting F&O, but on the other side, this crypto F&O ad is on the front page of ET...
02 Jul 2024

SEBI’s “true to label” circular

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SEBI issued a new circular mandating all market infrastructure institutions, like stock exchanges, to be "true to the label" in how they levy charges...
28 Jun 2024

Rise in options trading and the regulatory risks

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Kal Ho Na Ho is a good way to put it...
26 -Jun 2024
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Rainmatter investment in Solinas

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This is how we get our drinking water...
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26 +Mar 2021

How to know when odds are higher?

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The decision to trade should have multiple checkboxes, can’t just be one...
23 Mar 2021

Market size estimates

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Market size estimate (Revenue), from the two reports that I just read...
21 Mar 2021

a career highpoint

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Dad's first time on screen. Seeing him so proud is a career highpoint...
19 Mar 2021

CNBC India business leader award

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CNBC India business leader awards...
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Free & open-source software (FOSS) — one of the reasons behind Zerodha's success

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Free & open-source software (FOSS) is the main reason for the success of Zerodha as K writes.
28 Jan 2021

Shorting and Indian Capital Markets

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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.
22 Jan 2021

Beyond misleading trading turnover numbers — the actual size of Indian capital markets?

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Looking 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
01 -Jan 2021

The fallacy of predictions

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Even 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 ...
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01 +Jan 2021

The fallacy of predictions

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Even 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?

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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.
24 Dec 2020
23 Dec 2020

Total addressable market for brokers

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Since broking is hot post-COVID, inspite of all the spike in trading volumes and activtity, the total addressable market is just ~1.5 million users. I had shared this pre-Covid. Broking ...
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Sitting on a profitable trade is harder than sitting on a loss making trade

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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 ...
18 Oct 2020

Evolution of the Indian stock broking industry since the Harshad Mehta scam - Scam92 TV Show

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#Scam1992TheHarshadMehtaStory - a thread on everything that has changed since then in the world of Indian stockbroking. Today the settlement cycle is 2 days & SEBI is hinting at a ...
11 -Oct 2020

Generalists vs specialists

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My view on Generalist vs Specialist? Being a jack of all trades helps you grow intellectually & increases odds of finding what you love. But as a business, I think ...
08 -Oct 2020

Sense of time post-COVID

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Have been wondering why the post-COVID world seems more Busy-ness than Business. This article explains why beautifully - "We have more time for leisure than we did fifty years ago. ...
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Generalists vs specialists

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My view on Generalist vs Specialist? Being a jack of all trades helps you grow intellectually & increases odds of finding what you love. But as a business, I think ...
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08 +Oct 2020

Sense of time post-COVID

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Have been wondering why the post-COVID world seems more Busy-ness than Business. This article explains why beautifully - "We have more time for leisure than we did fifty years ago. ...
17 Sep 2020

Nikhil and Me on SNFConversations

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They say it is tough to be in business with family. @kamath_nikhil & I have been doing stuff together forever, never a fight & couldn't have had a ...
17 Sep 2020
15 Sep 2020

ESOP buyback - one of the highlights of the Zerodha journey

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We just provided liquidity to everyone on the team through an ESOP buyback. My most satisfying day as CEO of @zerodhaonline .
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date: '2022-06-16' -title: Varsity Bites -tags: [zerodha] -author: nithin -link: https://twitter.com/karthikrangappa/status/...