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Zerodha founder and CEO Nithin Kamath highlights a marked shift in investor preference since the Covid-19 pandemic, with money moving from fixed deposits and real estate to equities. He also points to a sharp increase in the number of unique and new investors during this period. Interestingly, Kamath said mutual funds have emerged as the […]
Loan against equity (LAS) is a good way to pay off high-interest debt such as personal loans or credit card dues, Zerodha founder and CEO Nithin Kamath said, while vouching for the discount broker’s LAS business that “just” crossed Rs 500 crore. He was also surprised to learn that many investors were unaware of this […]
Zerodha co-founder Nithin Kamath has warned investors to pay more attention to Depository Participant (DP) fees, saying these often overlooked fees can significantly increase trading costs, especially when brokers charge them as a percentage of the transaction value.In a post explaining how DP charges work, Kamath said that every time an investor sells shares, the […]
Retail participation and trading costs are once again taking center stage in the run-up to the Union Budget, especially after mixed market returns over the past year. Zerodha co-founder Nithin Kamath expressed concern over the sharp rise in securities transaction tax (STT) on derivatives and its impact on market activity and government revenue.Kamath said that […]
Zerodha CEO and founder Nithin Kamath has cautioned retail investors to pay close attention to lock-in periods when investing in initial public offerings (IPOs), noting that sell-offs by large shareholders after the lock-in expiry could put pressure on stock prices.In a post on microblogging platform X, formerly Twitter, Kamath explained that when a company goes […]
Zerodha founder and CEO Nithin Kamath said the 15% open interest (OI) limit at the brokerage level puts a hard ceiling on the extent to which a brokerage firm can grow and the pace of that growth. While the restriction limits scale, it ultimately benefits consumers by reducing concentration risk and preventing any single broker […]
Zerodha founder Nithin Kamath has highlighted a lesser-known feature that can help traders tap into arbitrage opportunities between the NSE and the BSE without added complexity or capital blockage.In a post on The feature works for both intraday trades and delivery positions, offering flexibility in different trading styles. “A feature that many people are not […]
Zerodha founder Nithin Kamath has warned traders about one of the most common but overlooked reasons for heavy losses in the markets – poor position sizing – arguing that even being right usually can’t protect investors from a single oversized bet.In a post on “You can be right 60% of the time and still lose […]
Following the Cloudflare outage, which disrupted the operations of several trading platforms today, Zerodha founder and CEO Nithin Kamath said the brief downtime not only disrupted ‘Kite’ services but also affected many other brokers, fintech platforms and online services globally. While Kamath underlined the risks of over-reliance on a single digital backbone, he apologized for […]
If your urge to keep trading gets the better of you, Zerodha users have an escape route through the ‘Kill Switch’ feature, said founder and CEO Nithin Kamath, adding that traders are on Kite platform can enable the feature and no longer place bets for the rest of the day.Citing his experiences as a trader […]
