(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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SEBI in a consultation paper has proposed direct delisting of PSU companies where public shareholding is more than 90% and MPS norms are not being met (74% within 3yrs of listing) due to weak business model, loss making entities, outdated tech or just not enough float.
It has been proposed to delist them with a 15% premium to the floor price (60 days VWAMP or highest price paid by PACs in 26w/52w volume weighted average price)
The requirement of seeking two-third approval from the public shareholders can be removed.
Many stocks with hyper inflated prices due to low float can fall into this category (ITI, FACT, KIOCL, HMT etc) and can be delisted under new norms in HCY26. Once the value is realized, it may be easier to sell their assets or just merge them with other PSU/Private entities.
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.