@WCPL
According to NSE website the sub-broker definition.
A ‘Sub-Broker’ is any person who is not a Trading Member of a Stock Exchange but who acts on behalf of a Trading Member as an agent or otherwise for assisting investors in dealing in securities through such Trading Members.
All Sub-Brokers are required to obtain a Certificate of Registration from SEBI without which they are not permitted to deal in securities. SEBI has directed that no Trading Member shall deal with a person who is acting as a Sub-Broker unless he is registered with SEBI and it shall be the responsibility of the Trading Member to ensure that his clients are not acting in the capacity of a Sub-Broker unless they are registered with SEBI as a Sub-Broker.
So Are you guys already registered with SEBI?
If yes can you share the registration number as I could not find it in your website?
Ok to further my post I could not find any registration details of WC in SEBI.
Neither I can find any registration details as subbroker in NSE or MCX.
Also did not find any details as authorized person for Alice blue on NSE and MCX?
So they are not legally subbroker for sure.
On further digging all the forms that they have are from Alice blue also the flat brokerage form is addressed to Alice blue.
So my conclusion is they are just agents who forward clients in return of bonus/commission from Alice blue.
All traders who opens account with WC are technically opening account at Alice blue and not WC. WC as a agent will be getting a portion of the brokerage generated by the trader as commission from Aliceblue.And the trader would be getting a discount plan which is not available if they directly go to AliceBlue.
Until these doubts/questions are clarified I will remove them from the calculator.I have no problems comparing sub-broker to broker as I have already clarified earlier.But I will be removing mainly because they are representing themselves as a sub broker which they are not.
if my above analysis is correct, WC will gain if they will come clean on their status/business model rather than posing as sub-broker.On the other hand if AliceBlue launches some equivalent plans then nobody will go to WC.