ICICI Direct is a retail broking branch of the ICICI group: India's top financial services provider. It is a full-time stockbroking company with a presence in 87 locations across the country with more 200 offices serving over 20 lakh customers every day. It is the 2nd largest stock broking company in India succeeded by Zerodha Ltd. This retail trading and investment platform offers a wide range of services to invest in stocks and other financial instruments.
The online share trading platform provides a complete investing and trading solution via products like equity trading, derivative trading, mutual funds, bonds, IPOs, NCD, loans, Fixed deposits , insurance etc all in one platform.From complete financial goal based planning to intraday trading in the stock market, ICICI direct is a one-stop solution.
The USP of this firm is the 3-in-1 account service which includes ICICI bank account, trading account and Demat account for
Please note than as of Friday, 22 Nov, 2019, Karvy Stock Broking Ltd is barred by SEBI from taking on any new clients, after finding alleged client-related fraud. However, Karvy will still serve the existing client base. They can still trade and manage the existing client’s demat accounts, and still serve services like applying in IPOs, and still retain the option to close their account anytime, but opening up of new accounts is prohibited.
Karvy Stock Broking Ltd (KSBL), established in 1990, is a subsidiary of KARVY Group, who happen to be one of India's popular financial services company. The firm, being a full service broker, offers stock broking and research advisory services too.
Karvy Stock Broking: Overview
Karvy Stock Broking Ltd (KSBL) is based out of Hyderabad, and is the brokerage-subsidiary Karvy Group. The firm happens to be a registered member of BSE, NSE, MCX, and ICEX along with being a registered
Charge | ICICI Direct | Karvy Stock Broking Ltd. |
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Demat Account Opening Charges | ₹0 | ₹0 |
Trading Acc Opening Charges | ₹975 (One-time) | ₹0 |
Trading Account AMC | ₹0 | ₹0 |
Demat Account AMC | ₹700 per year | ₹500 p.a. (For 1st year: Free) |
Charge | ICICI Direct | Karvy Stock Broking Ltd. |
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Plan Name | I-Secure Plan | Basic Plan |
Equity Delivery | 0.55% | 0.3% |
Equity Intraday | 0.275% | 0.03% |
Equity Futures | 0.050% | 0.03% |
Equity Options | ₹95 per lot and Option (Intraday) ₹50 per lot | ₹50 per lot |
Currency Futures | 0.050% and Currency Futures(Intraday) ₹50 | 0.03% |
Currency Options | ₹25 per lot and Currency Options (Intraday) ₹10 per lot | ₹50 per lot |
Commodity Options | N/A | 0.01% only on the sell side |
Mutual Fund | N/A | N/A |
Segment | ICICI Direct | Karvy Stock Broking Ltd. |
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Equity Delivery | 5x | Upto 5x |
Equity Intraday | Upto 25x | Upto 20x |
Equity Future | 4x | Upto 4x |
Equity Options | 2x for shorting | Upto 4x for shorting |
Currency Future | N/A | Nil |
Currency Options | N/A | Nil |
Commodity Future | N/A | Upto 4x |
Commodity Options | N/A | N/A |