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Trading research guides for Indian markets
Plain-English guides on paper trading, backtesting, risk management, trading costs and the rules for algorithmic trading in India — written to help you test ideas carefully before risking money.
SEBI Algo Trading Rules for Retail Traders (2026): What Changed and What It Means
SEBI's retail algo trading rules, applicable to all brokers from 1 April 2026: broker APIs, strategy IDs, the 10 orders-per-second limit and static IPs.
Paper Trading in India: How to Practise Intraday Trading Without Risking Money
How to paper trade NIFTY and BANKNIFTY realistically in India, and the mistakes that make simulated results look better than live trading.
Risk Management for NIFTY and BANKNIFTY Options Traders: A Practical Checklist
A practical risk checklist for NIFTY and BANKNIFTY options traders: position sizing, daily loss limits, stop-losses and expiry-day risk.
F&O and Intraday Trading Costs in India (2026): STT, Charges and a Worked Example
Every charge on an Indian F&O trade after the April 2026 STT increase — brokerage, STT, exchange fees, stamp duty, GST — with a NIFTY example.
How to Backtest an Intraday Trading Strategy (Without Fooling Yourself)
Backtest intraday NIFTY and BANKNIFTY strategies the right way: costs, look-ahead bias, overfitting and walk-forward out-of-sample testing.
Education only — not investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Trading in equity derivatives carries a high risk of loss; SEBI studies show most individual F&O traders lose money. AITOS Trade is not a SEBI-registered investment adviser or research analyst. Past or simulated results do not guarantee future returns.