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Tuesday, March 17, 2026
TopicDerivatives Market

Topic: Derivatives Market

Birla, Dalmia earned surpluses during World War 1—India’s derivatives trade has a long history

Adil Rustomjee's 'Running Behind Lakshmi' is a wide-ranging account that combines analytical history, financial practice, and market lore.

Increase in STT is small but it signals a shift in how India views risk

For long-term investors and for institutional entities with substantial balance sheets, the effect is marginal. The primary burden is borne by high-frequency retail traders.

Even as SEBI lays down new curbs on F&O market, discount brokerages are changing business models

SEBI Tuesday unveiled rules to curtail retail participation in derivatives market. Options premia to be collected upfront from options buyer effective 1 Feb 2025.

Traders losing big in India’s derivative market are under 30, low income, small-city men: report

SEBI found individual traders in derivatives market faced loss of Rs 1.8 lakh crore in 2021-24. A little more than half of them were from Maharashtra, Gujarat, UP & Rajasthan.

Individual traders incurred cumulative net loss of Rs 1.8 lakh crore in derivatives market in 3 yrs

New SEBI study finds that despite mounting losses each year, individuals preferred options over futures. They were consistently beaten by algorithmic traders, but kept returning.

On Camera

Free gas to waivers, govt-owned gas firms roll out incentives to push households from LPG to PNG

IGL, MGL & other city gas distributors announce benefits to encourage LPG users to shift to piped natural gas as Centre flags concerns over LPG supply in the wake of Iran conflict.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.