(1) The minimum margin requirement for BUYING stocks from the client can be 20% of the trade value instead of (earlier decided) full 100% VAR+ELM
In such case, broker will make up for the difference between this 20% and VAR+ELM from its own capital. Most will be happy to do so
(2) 20% margin is NOT required for selling holdings from DP if your broker is doing EPI by 7:30 pm on T-day. Contact your broker to ensure this. Most are doing it as that means higher efficiency and more business.
(3) In case you are selling holdings from DP, you are free to buy from those sell proceeds. You can buy Stocks or F&O positions.
The stock being EPI ]as mentioned in (2)]can be considered as margin.
(3a) There is one exception to point (3)
If you sell something from the DP holdings, you cannot buy back the same stock on the same day because in that case, EPI is not possible and hence you need to have margin in your account.
(3b) Infact broker will not allow you to even place such a trade because penalty is on broker, not on client. The complete onus is on them to implement the new margin system.
(3c) If you are selling stocks to buy options, there is one more exception.
Credit from selling overnight long option positions can’t be used to trade in futures, buy stocks, or write options, but only to enter new options positions until T+1
(4) Now understand the pledging system for extra margin.
You put your stocks as collateral for F&O. With new rules, stocks will remain in your demat account (and not broker pool account). The pledging and repledging needs to be done with this new format.
(4a) Every broker was hoping to get extension on this today but when it did not came, the pledges made in the old system got unwounded and will be repledged by new rules from tomorrow.
Issue was w/ few brokers whose system was not ready. They let the clients do it on their own
(5) Now for intraday leverages
For intraday cash trades, max 20% of VAR+ELM will be charged or 5x leverage given (This is from 1st Sept, 2020)
For F&O intraday trades, SPAN+exposure need to be collected upfront. This was applicable from 1st Oct 2019 (and not a new rule)
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Markets had an extremely smooth run-time in last 5 months, much ahead of everyone's expectations.
Older and wiser investors are unduly cautious while newer and bold investors with YOLO approach wants more.
Time for some investment lessons learned from past cycles 🧵
(1) Define your investment objectives and goals clearly.
Success in investment depends largely on clarity in investment O&G. Factors like growth, yield, income, risk, are dynamic & will keep on changing every year.
Investors must periodically re-evaluate objectives.
(2) Forming a solid investment team is critical to successful investment strategy.
Carefully assess the honesty, competence, and objective of those giving you investment advice & services.
DIY investors need to make sure they have sufficient time and skill set to execute.
A thread of the 10 best podcast episodes (& series) I listened to this year #2022inreview
PS : I use @Spotify as my platform, so hyperlinks are from there. In the case of the series, I have shared a link to the first episode.
This is across genres. RT for wider benefit.
(1) For over ~4hrs, @amitvarma and @BShrayana discuss the complexities of being a woman in India. Context is the latter's wonderfully written - "Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh" which is a cleverly disguised economics book talking about movies.
(2) Summarizing gist of the business is a forte of @bizbreakdowns and this one chronicling GE's dominance and decline is a treat, specially inputs coming from Josh Aguilar, @MorningstarInc analyst who has tracked the company closely for many yrs.
Certain business channels allowing ONLY SEBI registered analysts & advisors to come on their shows from NOW ON after all this brouhaha is just hogwash.
This should have been done always in the past but that's not how money is made on channels.
Eventually all business channels need to survive which means more hits and clicks across various social media platforms. So called finfluencers provided that on a platter, regulation be damned.
So now following the RA (2016) or RIA (2013) regulations smells of hypocricy.
Every finfluencer has been blantantly disregarding RA/RIA regulations for years in the name of 'only for educational purposes'.
Regulations are clear, if you want to talk about stocks across ANY platform, get a license from SEBI. But this has been rarely practiced.
Quite a lot of investors are worried about the FPIs dumping Indian equities and concluding that this is the prime reason for the ongoing correction in stock prices.
A 🧵 to understand details about FPIs buying and selling in financial markets before jumping to conclusions
(1) FPIs are NOT a uniform class of investors.
Some examples:
Pension funds - very long term horizon (multi-decades)
Hedge funds & AIF - very short term horizon (3-6m)
EM funds - buy/sell as basket including India
ETFs - MSCI, iShare EM, iShare Asia, FTSE
(1a) All these investors differ in Investment:
- Horizon
- Objectives
- Strategies
They rarely act in unison as the universe of investible stocks is also different.
To assume that all FPIs are selling at the same time violating the mandate & exiting India is bit overdramatic.
A good article on the challenges of working as SEBI registered Investment advisor (RIA). The new norms have come from Oct-20 and it has caused more harm than good.
(1) The 2yr PG in "relevant stream" clause is filled with roadblocks (Earlier it was only PG). Forcing RIAs to do a PG degree that too of 2 yrs is bizzare. Many professional certifications like CS were removed from the equivalent PG category overnight.
(2) Foreign PG degrees of 2 yrs require equivalent certificate from Indian authorities which is a pain specially if considerable time has passed for PG. Its like running from pillar to post. Proving "relevant stream" again has been an uphill task.