Mumbai, Sep 23 (IANS): The aggregate losses of individual traders in the equity futures and options (F&O) segment exceeded Rs 1.8 lakh crore over the three-year period between FY22 and FY24, a new study by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) showed on Monday. Over nine out of 10 individual traders in the.....

More than 91 per cent or 73 lakh individual traders lost money in the Futures & Option (F&O) segment in FY24 with an average net loss of Rs1.2 lakh per person, a study conducted by markets...

Moreover, the number of retail traders, or individual traders, has almost doubled in two years to about 96 lakh in FY24 from about 51 lakh in FY22

The aggregate losses of individual traders in the equity futures and options (F&O) segment exceeded Rs 1.8 lakh crore over the three-year period between FY22 and FY24, a new study by the Securities...

According to the Sebi study, 1.13 crore retail traders in F&O markets collectively lost Rs 1.81 lakh crore during this period.

The BSE benchmark soared 1,359.51 points or 1.63 per cent to settle at an all-time high of 84,544.31 on Friday. During the day, it jumped 1,509.66 points or 1.81 per cent to hit the lifetime intra-day peak of 84,694.46.