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Weekly Insights: Futures, Options, and Losses: A Deep Dive into India's Retail Trading Trap
In the bustling world of India's stock market, few things have captured the imagination of retail investors like Futures and Options (F&O) trading. The allure is undeniable: F&O offers the promise of rapid gains, leveraging small capital for large returns. It's fast-paced, thrilling, and seemingly within reach for anyone with an online trading account. But behind the excitement lies a sobering truth-most retail investors lose money, and the scale of these losses is staggering.The Players Making Profits
While retail investors are drowning in losses, other players are thriving. Proprietary traders and Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) have consistently posted profits in the F&O segment. In FY24, proprietary traders earned gross profits of ₹33,000 crore, followed by FPIs with ₹28,000 crore in gross profits. These numbers highlight the stark contrast between retail participants and the professional traders who dominate the market.
But the story doesn't end there. A significant portion of the profits for proprietary traders and FPIs came from "algo entities"-algorithm-driven trading systems that execute high-frequency trades based on complex mathematical models. In FY24, 97% of the profits for FPIs and 96% for proprietary traders came from these algo entities. These sophisticated trading algorithms give institutional players a distinct advantage, allowing them to exploit market inefficiencies with speed and precision that human traders simply cannot match.
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