Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch on Monday said she is “confused and surprised” at investor interest in Futures and Options (F&O) despite 90 per cent of individuals losing money in the segment.
Buch said there is a need for investors to look at the long term and added that chances of making inflation-beating returns are much brighter through this strategy.
Speaking during the launch of the Investor Risk Reduction Access (IRRA) platform at Asia’s oldest stock bourse BSE here, Buch pointed to a recent research by the capital markets regulator which pointed out that only 11 per cent of the 45.24 lakh individual traders in the F&O segment made profit.
As per the research, there was an exponential increase in the F&O segment participation during the pandemic, with the total number of unique individual traders increasing by over 500 per cent from the 7.1 lakh in FY19.
“I must admit, I am always a little confused and surprised as to why people continue to do that (bet in …
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