Hi
Thanks to bpr for this nice thread.
It alone provides lots of informations at one single place.:thumb:
I was trading (NSE-Futures) at reliance money & ICICI direct till now and now looking for best discount brokerage.
After reading all the posts in 54 pages of this thread in past few days I came to few conclusions
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-Zerodha/RKSV were having 1st mover's advantage in discount brokerage.
-Others came (SAS, TSO, Wisdom, Achiievers etc) or are coming with new facilities & further low brokerage to increase their customer base.
-Few of these may not sustain but others (company with transparency, promptness, pro-customer & honest behavior) will establish their name in the market like Zerodha did.
-If a new company is not providing all the trading segments- Commodity, currency or NSE or having small office doesn't mean it will not sustain. They have to keep recurring cost low till they get good customer base.
-If one small/big company is playing with customers money or dishonest or not listening to customer's grievances on time or do not care about customers facilities which its competitor are providing it will fail.
-In future any good company may stop its business of retail brokerage, like VPS did.
Finally I zeroed in SAS Online, Wisdom capital, RKSV.
SAS- Pros- Old Company (1995), Low brokerage, Low transaction cost
Cons- New in retail brokerage, absence on traderji
Wisdom Capital- Pros- Associated with Alice blue, Low brokerage & transaction cost, Nest trading platform, good margin support (to me
, report of failure of trading system once which was corrected soon and no recurrence of similar problem.
Cons- New Company, New in retail brokerage, good margin support (to all
), not registered in exchanges.
RKSV- Pros- Old in retail brokerage, Lowest transaction cost, Nest trading platform.
Cons-Didn't experience its system in big market collapse till now, Little bit high per month brokerage.
Initially I excluded Wisdom capital because they were new in tread and were providing huge margin support which is prone to adverse market conditions. But when it became clear that they are associated with Alice blue for North India, I again considered it.
I'll initially start with SAS, then if I'm not satisfied with SAS and my per trade Lot size increases, I'll opt for WC. If any time I'll feel insecurity of my capital I'll go for RKSV.
Zerodha (Higher cost but established name), TSO (Older then RKSV & cost similar to RKSV but newer in discount brokerage), Achiivers (High transaction cost, No brokerage calculator on website but very low per month brokerage) were also good in some areas.