Founded in 2016, ProStocks is the Online venture of Sunlight Broking LLP- one of India's top stock broking companies. It is known to offer convenient trading at economical rates. Being an online venture ProStocks prides itself in not indulging with any overhead costs like branch offices, Relationship managers and expensive advertisements in order to offer low-cost transactions and plans. ProStocks is the cheapest broker for unlimited trading plans which intends to start providing mutual fund services soon.
It is a Mumbai-based company founded by SP Toshniwal (present CEO) and Saurabh Ranka which allows its clients to trade and invest in the companies listed on the BSE and NSE exchanges. It facilitates trading in segments like Equity cash, Derivative Trading, Currency trading and Intraday Equity. The 2-in-1 Demat and trading account feature makes transactions handy and convenient. They also offer NRI trading services with zero additional account fee and
It is the lineage of the Axis group and a subsidiary of India's third largest private sector bank. Axis direct provides a wide spectrum of investment and trading solutions to over 20 million clients. It won the title of Top Equity broker two years in a row 2018-19 by the BSE outlook. It allows trade via BSE, NSE, MCX and NCDEX exchange.
The Mumbai-based subsidiary was started in 2011 by key people of the Axis group, B. Gopkumar (MD) and Anand Shaha (ED). It offers various financial products to its consumers like Mutual funds, SIP, Equity derivatives, IPO, ETFs, Tax Saving , Fixed income etc. With the motto and tagline of #SimpleHai Axis Direct aims to become a key player in the retails broking industry. They are a full-service broker firm with over 75 branches across India.
In addition to this, Axis direct provides the 3-in-1 account facility which
Charge | ProStocks | AxisDirect |
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Demat Account Opening Charges | ₹0 | ₹0 |
Trading Acc Opening Charges | ₹0 | ₹999 (For a 3-in-1 Account) |
Trading Account AMC | ₹0 | ₹0 |
Demat Account AMC | ₹0 (with ₹1000 one time refundable deposit) | ₹650 per year (free for 1st year) |
Charge | ProStocks | AxisDirect |
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Plan Name | Unlimited Plan | N/A |
Equity Delivery | ₹0 | 0.50% |
Equity Intraday | ₹0 | 0.05% |
Equity Futures | ₹0 | 0.05% |
Equity Options | ₹0 | ₹0.01 or ₹10 per lot |
Currency Futures | ₹0 | 0.05% |
Currency Options | ₹0 | ₹0.01 or ₹10 per lot |
Commodity Options | N/A | Futures: 0.03% and Options: ₹50 per lot |
Mutual Fund | N/A | N/A |
Segment | ProStocks | AxisDirect |
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Equity Delivery | 1x (no margin) | 1x |
Equity Intraday | 7x (Margin intraday sq off) | Upto 10x |
Equity Future | 2x | 1x |
Equity Options | 1x (no margin) | 1x |
Currency Future | 1.5x | 1x |
Currency Options | 1x (no margin) | 1x |
Commodity Future | N/A | 3x |
Commodity Options | N/A | 1x |