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MUMBAI – A detailed study containing annual analysis of equity derivatives investors' trades for 2025-26 (Apr-Mar) will be released Thursday, Chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India Tuhin Kanta Pandey said on the sidelines of a capital markets conference Wednesday. Recently, SEBI had given data to minister of state for finance to be used in the Rajya Sabha to respond to a question from a member of parliament.

 

In its summary to the finance ministry, SEBI disclosed the net loss incurred by individual traders in equity derivatives in FY26 was INR 916.85 billion, down from INR 1.12 trillion in FY25. The study had analysed participation and profitability outcome of individual investors in the equity derivatives segment of the stock exchanges. 

 

 

The study's summary showed average loss per individual trader in equity derivatives had increased slightly to INR 116,654 in FY26 from INR 113,913 in FY25. Over the last 3-4 years, SEBI has been analysing the equity derivatives trades by individual investors based on client information collected from the top 15 equity derivatives brokers.

 

Pandey also said on the sideline that the SEBI was going to issue a consultation paper which will comprehensively review the initial public offering framework for small and medium enterprises. Issues such as difficulty in trading in listed SME stocks will be explored in the consultation paper, he indicated. "We have seen that odd lots have been created due to which the investors who have come there are not able to trade," he said.

 

SEBI had originally thought that keeping higher trading lots and IPO application size will help control retail participation, but "that did not happen", the SEBI chairman said. There are also issues pertaining to migration of SME platform-listed companies to the main listing board of stock exchanges, he said. All these will be covered in the consultation paper, according to Pandey.  End

 

Reported by Rajesh Gajra and Kabir Sharma

Edited by Akul Nishant Akhoury

 

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