If you are an active investor in the stock markets, then you know a lot has changed in how stocks are settled in India. Here's a new change that you should know about🧵👇 Until November 7, 2024, when you bought shares for delivery, on the T+1 day, the Clearing Corporation (CC) would credit those shares to the broker’s pool account. By the end of the day, the broker credited the shares to your demat account.

The Diwali 🪔 Muhurat trading session this year will be held on Friday, November 1, 2024, from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

Keeping with our tradition of over the last 14 years, brokerage charges for all trades during the Muhurat trading session will be reversed. Zero brokerage on all Intraday, F&O, and commodity trades. What is Muhurat trading?

A Muhurat trading session is held every year by the exchanges on Diwali, during Lakshmi Puja.

Today is the ex-date for the bonus issue of Reliance Industries. Anyone holding shares of Reliance as of October 28, 2024 (ex/record date) will get one share for every one share held.

Here’s all you need to know🧵👇 What is a bonus issue?

A bonus issue is a way for a company to reward its shareholders by giving them additional shares at no extra cost. However, the value of your investment remains the same.

SEBI recently introduced key changes to the dynamic price bands for stocks in the F&O segments. These changes aim to enhance volatility management during significant stock price movements and reduce information asymmetry.

What are price bands? Here’s all you need to know🧵 All stocks and derivative contracts traded on the exchanges have defined price bands within which they can trade for the day. These bands typically range from +/-2% to +/-20% of the previous close price.

Many ETFs seem to be trading at a big premium or discount to their benchmark. Please keep these things in mind before buying and selling ETFs.

Whenever there are sharp moves in the markets, ETFs can trade at abnormal premiums or discounts. Here are a few ETFs for example. When you are buying and selling ETFs, you need to look at two numbers:

- The price
- The iNAV or Intraday Net Asset Value of an ETF

The price is what you see on Kite. This is influenced by market movements, demand, and supply.

NSE and BSE will conduct special live trading sessions on Saturday, March 2, 2024, in the equity and F&O segments.

- The first session will be held from 9:15 AM to 10 AM.
- The second session will be held from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM.

Here’s what you need to keep in mind👇 What's the purpose of this session?

To ensure that trading can continue without any problems if something were to go wrong in the main trading venues. SEBI requires Market Infrastructure Intermediaries (MIIs) to perform a switchover to their Disaster Recovery (DR) site as part of the business continuity plan.

NSE and BSE will be holding special live trading sessions on Saturday, 20th January in the equity and F&O segments.

1. The first session will be held from 9:15 AM to 10 AM.
2. The second session will be held from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM.

Here’s what you need to keep in mind🧵 What's the purpose of this session?

To ensure that trading can continue without any problems if something were to go wrong in the main trading venues. SEBI requires Market Infrastructure Intermediaries (MIIs) to perform a switchover to their Disaster Recovery (DR) site as part of the business continuity plan.

On Saturday, January 20, 2024, NSE & BSE will be conducting special live trading sessions in the equity F&O segments.

There will be two sessions; first from the primary and second from disaster recovery site of the exchanges. The timing for these sessions will be as follows 👇 Trading session from primary site:

Pre-open session: 9 AM - 9:08 AM
Normal market timing: 9:15 AM - 10 AM

Trading session from the disaster recovery site:

Pre-open session: 11:15 AM - 11:23 AM
Normal market timing: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

48% of medical bills are paid out-of-pocket in India

States such as U. P., Kerala, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh & Punjab go up to 71% 🚨

That’s because most people don’t have a health plan or their cover isn’t sufficient.

Here’s a complete health insurance guide by @joinditto👇

A🧵 1. Selecting the insurer

A few things to look at while finalising an insurer:

Claim Settlement Ratio (CSR)👉

This is basically a ratio of the number of claims they’ve settled to the number of claims they’ve received.

Anything above 90% is good.

Mid-caps and small-caps have risen spectacularly in 2023.

Whenever there's a lot of exuberance, it's wise to remember this quote:

“Good times become good memories, but bad times become good lessons.” Whenever something goes up, retail investors chase performance, which ends in disappointment and tears.

Exchange traded funds (ETFs) have grown tremendously in the last 5 odd years. There are over 174 ETFs; you can easily build a low-cost, globally diversified portfolio just with ETFs.

But before you buy and sell ETFs, you should know a few things.

🧵A thread 1. Don't buy and sell immediately at the open market.

The trading volumes of ETFs are low for the first 15–30 mins after the market opens. Due to illiquidity, there can be sharp price moves. So, it's best to avoid buying and selling at market opening.

A term insurance policy pays out in the case of your demise. It helps secure your dependents.

According to a survey, only 17% of Indian millennials have term insurance.

So, here's a guide by @joinditto to help you select the right policy for you.

🧵👇(1/n) 1) Policy duration: A term plan is most effective when your absence deals a financial blow to your family.

So it makes sense to buy a term plan for the period in which your family isn't able to lead a comfortable life.

2/n

Most of us are one serious health issue away from facing financial difficulties. Regular health checkups & health insurance can help, but choosing a policy is hard.

A simple checklist for picking the best health insurance for you & your loved ones by @joinditto
A thread👇 (1/n) 1.) Don’t split the Bill:

- Insurers might nudge you to consider a co-payment clause, in which case, you’ll be forced to foot a part of the bill each time you make a claim.

- This might not be the best option unless you have no choice, or are purchasing for elderly citizens.

Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay

We might not realize it, but trading is a demanding activity & can be incredibly stressful. Most traders spend most of their time thinking about the markets & their P&L but not nearly enough about their mental wellness.
zerodha.com/varsity/chapte… If you ignore stress and anxiety, they always catch up—our bodies keep score. What's the point of making money, if you aren't healthy.

Your physical health is influenced by your mental health. If you're stressed, it'll show up physically.

https://twitter.com/karthikrangappa/status/1457247294214967297?s=20&t=jt_iT-8VNC1lSYL8ahHHbw

Console is the central dashboard for viewing your account details, downloading various reports like tax P&L, fund statements & also insights on your portfolio.

Console also has some really cool features and tools, and a lot of people don’t know about them.

🧵A thread On the holdings tab, you can get insights on your portfolio exposure by asset class, sectors, and market cap. This can be quite helpful to keep an eye on portfolio concentration risk and also when you have to rebalance your portfolio back to your target allocation.

What is the difference between a stock split and a bonus issue? A 🧵 Stock splits and bonuses are two common corporate actions that investors get confused with.

A thread on stock splits and bonuses and how these two corporate impact your holdings and the share prices.

Have you tried the Iceberg orders, yet? If you haven’t, here’s a quick explanation of how they can help you when trading 🧵👇 Traders lose more to impact costs than to brokerage and taxes when trading large quantities, and Iceberg orders help reduce impact costs.

Example: A market order of 1000 shares placed when the stock was trading at ₹100, and executed at ₹100.5, leads to ₹500 in impact cost.

Pump and dumps are one of the oldest scams in the stock market.

In a pump and dump, operators who hold most of the shares move the prices by spreading messages through SMS, social media and then dump the shares once the price rises. SMS, Telegram, & WhatsApp, were the most popular channels to spread these stock tips for a long time. But of late, people with large followings on social media and YouTube are being paid to promote stocks through tweets and videos.

As a shareholder of a company, you are entitled to vote on important company decisions like board appointments, corporate actions, mergers & acquisitions, executive compensation, etc. But very few retail investors vote on shareholder proposals.
support.zerodha.com/category/conso… One reason for this is, of course, retail investors are a small part of the Indian markets. The retail shareholding in NSE-listed companies is about ~7%.

If you’ve opened your Zerodha account recently, you may not know about some of the cool features we have across all the Zerodha products and platforms.

A thread on some features that will help you trade and invest better😀👇 With Nudges, our aim is to help users avoid mistakes at the point of decision-making. We’ll nudge you when you’re about to make a mistake like buy dubious stocks, trade illiquid scrips, stocks with corporate actions etc. Here are a few Nudges that have helped users the most👇