Hi All,
Please do not go with India Infoline. I went ahead with it against a lot of complaints, and managed to get a .02/0.2 brokerage, because I found that you can place 2 buy orders and 2 sell orders at the same time, and I wanted to try out Dhiraj's 2652 system. It did work, but soon I found what kind of cheats they are. It took me to place a huge order and get into margin to find this out.
1. They won't square off your positions upon explicit instructions, they are more interested in the 0.02 becoming 0.2, and you getting into margin call.
2. They will force you to make up your margin account stating 50% balance reqt, even on the weekend (you can transfer from bank no sir!)
3. They will gladly oblige the remaining as margin with a margin loan for as long as you want, and they also tell you that for 15 days it is free, but they charge you from day t+1. This you will only know when they reflect it as a Delayed pay-in charge and deduct from your account, which can be huge.
4. They will charge for Saturday and Sunday also even though you traded on Friday, and you will end up getting charged at the rate of 24%/annum per day of your using their margin as a loan.
5. They will bug you to trade even when market is falling (you can short no sir!).
6. They will send you TIPS which try to help the companies. For example an airline company came down 20 rupees in a second to pick up my order, but I was wondering what happened to all the poor folks who had stop losses between the CMP and my order.
I closed all my positions as soon as possible (fortunately market was sideways) and took a small loss. Because I wanted to get out of the web of these cheats, I missed the bull run on a company to the tune of 2 lakhs and also my money was locked with them because of the sale. I suggest that you clear your holdings and transfer your money out of this company before even speaking about closing your account to these people.
These guys will do everything and anything to fleece you. This company WILL go to the dogs, because it has been my experience with such companies, however big they are, if they do not have basic business ethics they will eventually go belly up. Your money is highly unsafe with such people. I have bailed out with a significant loss, but I have learnt my lesson.
Alternatively, I was unhappy with HDFC securities online and Sharekhan's brokerages, but it turned out that they are the best in terms of trading speed as well as charts for day trading. But I find them to be ok. Sharekhan guys keep bugging you to trade but they are harmless, and HDFC security is the best, you have 100% assurance that your money is safe, is properly managed, if only they bring out a trading platform, to get away from the bugging auto logout issue.
Thanks for listening.