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Futures & Options (F&O)
  1. What is F&O (Futures and Options)?
  2. What is interoperability of exchanges and how does this affect my Equity and F&O trading?
  3. How to view the option chain on Kite and what are its features?
  4. What are the risks of trading Futures and Options (F&O)?
  5. What are the new lot sizes for Index F&O contracts?
  6. What are Open interest limits?
  7. Can F&O positions be rolled over during the ban period?
  8. Why are weekly expiries no longer available for certain F&O contracts?
  9. How to trade weekly nifty option contracts in Zerodha?
  10. Why are there restrictions on placing Nifty and Sensex option orders for certain strike prices?
  11. What is Zerodha's policy on the physical settlement of equity derivatives on expiry?
  12. Why are there restrictions on placing Bank Nifty and Nifty option orders for certain strike prices?
  13. What is the impact of corporate actions on futures and options?
  14. If an F&O position results in taking delivery of the stock, when will the stocks show up on Kite?
  15. What does Rollover mean?
  16. Why do F&O contracts enter ban period?
  17. Why are F&O contracts not displayed for a particular stock?
  18. What happens if the option contract is not squared off on the expiry date?
  19. What are currency derivatives, and how to trade them on Kite?
  20. Why can't market orders be placed for certain index and stock option contracts at Zerodha?
  21. Why is buying stock options close to the expiry not allowed?
  22. What are the risks associated with the physical delivery of stock Futures & Options (F&O)?
  23. How is buy average calculated for F&O trades?
  24. Why was the settlement price 0 for the option position, although the Last Traded Price (LTP) is not 0?
  25. What are interest rate derivatives?
  26. Why were funds deducted from Zerodha account for exiting a profitable short options position?
  27. Why is the option order being rejected with a request to place it around the theoretical price?

Market sessions
  1. What are stock market timings?
  2. What are the auto square-off timings for open intraday positions?
  3. What are pre-market and post-market sessions on NSE & BSE?
  4. What are the trading hours for a stock on the listing day after its IPO?
  5. What is periodic call auction and why are some stocks traded in this category?

Commodity trading
  1. How are MCX contracts settled?
  2. What is devolvement for commodity option and how does it work?
  3. Why is trading in some agri commodities not allowed?
  4. What is the position limit for agricultural commodities?
  5. Why is an additional margin charged for energy futures contracts close to expiry?
  6. What does the devolvement of ITM commodity options mean, and what impact does it have on the positions?
  7. What does clubbing of open position limit on MCX mean?
  8. How is the disparity, parity between MCX prices and International prices for gold, silver, aluminium and zinc calculated?

Securities Lending and Borrowing (SLB)
  1. How to activate and deactivate Securities Lending and Borrowing (SLB)?
  2. Is DDPI mandatory to avail of SLB services at Zerodha?
  3. What is Securities Lending and Borrowing (SLB) and how to avail it?
  4. Is POA mandatory to avail of SLB services at Zerodha?
  5. How are Securities Lending and Borrowing (SLB) trades taxed?
  6. How to get the trade confirmation memo for Securities Lending and Borrowing (SLB) trades?
  7. How to check live quotes and place orders for SLB?
  8. Can an NRI, HUF, Corporate account avail SLB services?
  9. Where can the list of approved securities be found for SLB?
  10. Does Zerodha offer the facility of 'stock lending and borrowing'?
  11. What are the eligibility criterias for placing SLB orders?
  12. Can pledged shares be lent under SLB?
  13. Can SLB positions be rolled over?
  14. Where can SLB bids and offers be checked?
  15. What are the charges for SLB transactions?
  16. What does Repay/Recall in SLB mean, or how to foreclose the SLB position?

Trading categories and groups
  1. What do the different groups on NSE and BSE mean?
  2. How are shares settled in a BTST transaction?
  3. What does GSM mean?
  4. Why is buying restricted for GSM stage 2 and above stocks?
  5. Can Zerodha Fund House securities be pledged for margin?
  6. What is ASM (Additional surveillance measures)?
  7. What are large cap, mid cap and small cap companies, and how to identify them?
  8. What is BZ Category of stocks on NSE?
  9. What happens when a stock is suspended?
  10. How to buy NCDs, bonds and tax-free bonds on Kite?
  11. What are the risks associated with trading in securities under surveillance measures?
  12. Where can I see the stocks I hold that are suspended?
  13. Where can the ETFs listed on the exchange be found?
  14. What does the SM or M symbol beside a stock mean?

Others
  1. Everything you need to know to get started with your Zerodha account
  2. When does cash settlement happen to close out short delivery?
  3. Does Zerodha have a desktop platform?
  4. What is short delivery and what are its consequences?
  5. Why are the purchased shares not visible in the holdings?
  6. What does settlement cycle mean?
  7. Where can Pi be downloaded?
  8. What are circuit limits or price bands?
  9. What are market-wide circuit breakers?
  10. Does Zerodha help clients learn how to invest and trade?
  11. Can currency derivatives be traded on BSE?
  12. Why isn't the order getting executed even though it has been placed successfully?
  13. What is the CDSL TPIN and how to use it to sell the stock holdings?
  14. Where can an investor or trader learn about relevant taxes?
  15. What is Zerodha's brokerage calculator?
  16. Can orders be placed by calling Zerodha?
  17. Can clients visit Zerodha offices to trade?
  18. Does Zerodha assign a relationship manager who provides advisory tips?
  19. Will Zerodha help me learn to invest and trade?
  20. Is there a mobile app for Zerodha Varsity?
  21. What is Z-connect?
  22. What is TradingQ&A?
  23. Can the reading progress be tracked on the Varsity web?
  24. Does Zerodha offer demo accounts for paper trading?
  25. What is the validity of the CDSL authorisation?
  26. Which commodity options contracts can be traded on Kite?
  27. How to generate the CDSL TPIN required to authorise the CNC sell transactions?
  28. How to track global indices on Kite?
  29. What are CFDs (Contract for Difference)?
  30. What happens to the investments if a stockbroker becomes bankrupt?
  31. Will Zerodha square off the positions in case of “freak trades”?
  32. What are Differential Voting Rights (DVR) shares?
  33. What are Exchange Traded Funds(ETF’s)?
  34. What are unsettled funds?
  35. Why has the fund balance increased but shares are missing from holdings?
  36. What are partly paid shares?
  37. Where can one obtain Form 10DB at Zerodha?
  38. What are the risks involved in BTST?
  39. Why is intraday trading not allowed for contracts if the underlying security is under a ban period?
  40. Why is there a difference between the LTP and closing price on NSE?
  41. Can the product type of the hedged position be converted?
  42. Can cross-currency derivatives be traded in Zerodha?
  43. Can shares be bought on one exchange and sold on another?
  44. Why is the opening price of a stock different from its previous day's closing price on Kite?
  45. How to short sell shares in equity and futures?
  46. What is available cash and opening balance on Kite?
  47. Why does one receive an SMS and Email from NSE, BSE, and MCX when trading?
  48. How to check all the trades placed with the broker on the exchange?
  49. How to do BTST trades at Zerodha?
  50. What is a daily margin statement, and how to understand it?
  51. What does IRP (Insolvency Resolution Process) mean?
  52. What is BTST and how does it work?
  53. Why is the account in debit after placing a stop-loss order?
  54. Why are bids and offers at 0 being displayed in the market depth?
  55. Can NSE/BSE commodities be traded at Zerodha?
  56. Can covered bonds be pledged as collateral to receive collateral margin at Zerodha?
  57. How to backtest the technical strategies on Kite by Zerodha?
  58. Why have I been charged margin penalty?
  59. Why is there a delay in order placement during the market opening?
  60. Why is the circuit limit showing differently on Kite after the stocks circuit limit has already been hit?
  61. Can Zerodha users invest in foreign stocks?
  62. How to trade weekly currency options at Zerodha?
  63. What is the difference between holdings and positions?
  64. How safe is it to trade with Zerodha?
  65. Can an arbitrage trade be carried out between two exchanges?
  66. What is a settlement holiday and its impact?
  67. How is Option premium calculated when there are multiple trades?
  68. What are Trade to Trade or T2T stocks?
  69. How safe are the funds and securities with a stockbroker?
  70. What happens to the funds and holdings if a stockbroker defaults?
  71. Why is there no price movement in the stock’s option contracts when the price of the stock and its futures contract is moving?
  72. How can I regenerate my CDSL TPIN if I've forgotten it?
  73. Does Zerodha support Stockreports+?
  74. Why is MIS not allowed for certain instruments?

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