Sebi on Wednesday said it will soon issue guidelines on additional risk disclosures required to be made by brokers and exchanges to investors as its study suggested that every 9 in 10 individual traders in the equity F&O segment suffered losses in FY 2021-22.
The findings, part of a study conducted by the regulator under the supervision of a working group, analysed the trading by individual investors with regard to net profit or loss encountered by them in the equity F&O (Futures & Options) segment for the period FY19 and FY22 only.
The study is based on a sample of all individual clients of all the top-10 stock brokers, accounting for 67 per cent of the overall individual client turnover in the equity F&O segment during FY 2021-22.
It revealed that 89 per cent of the individual traders (9 out of 10 individual traders) in the equity F&O segment incurred losses, with an average loss of Rs 1.1 lakh during FY22. Moreover, 90 per cent of the active traders incurred …
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