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
The best part about Paytm Money is in the fact that it carries the brand name Paytm. Now while that provides a huge advantage from a branding perspective, whether it is enough from a functional perspective, we’ll see.
Paytm Money is a mutual fund trading app, facilitating payments through net banking, UPI, OTM. However, it launched its discount broking wing sometime back and is planning to expand its user base towards the stock investors and traders. Paytm Money’s target market happens to be one of the largest population demographics, i.e the young and middle aged. With Paytm Money, the company joints it’s easy to use interface with quality and service standards set by Paytm.
All this while it ventures into the mutual fund app space and further diversifying into the stock broking services in India. Paytm is an Indian company, funded by Alibaba and backed by Ratan Tata
Charge | ProStocks | Paytm Money |
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Demat Account Opening Charges | ₹0 | ₹0 (Free) |
Trading Acc Opening Charges | ₹0 | Rs. 200 (One time Digital KYC) + Rs. 300 Account Opening Charges |
Trading Account AMC | ₹0 | ₹0 (Free) |
Demat Account AMC | ₹0 (with ₹1000 one time refundable deposit) | Annual Platform Fees of Rs.300 |
Charge | ProStocks | Paytm Money |
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Plan Name | Unlimited Plan | Basic Plan |
Equity Delivery | ₹0 | ₹0 |
Equity Intraday | ₹0 | 0.05% of turnover or ₹10 whichever is lower |
Equity Futures | ₹0 | 0.05% of turnover or ₹10 whichever is lower |
Equity Options | ₹0 | 0.05% of turnover or ₹10 whichever is lower |
Currency Futures | ₹0 | 0.05% of turnover or ₹10 whichever is lower |
Currency Options | ₹0 | 0.05% of turnover or ₹10 whichever is lower |
Commodity Options | N/A | 0.05% of turnover or ₹10 whichever is lower |
Mutual Fund | N/A | N/A |
Segment | ProStocks | Paytm Money |
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Equity Delivery | 1x (no margin) | Upto 4x |
Equity Intraday | 7x (Margin intraday sq off) | Upto 20x |
Equity Future | 2x | Upto 3x |
Equity Options | 1x (no margin) | Upto 5x |
Currency Future | 1.5x | Upto 2x |
Currency Options | 1x (no margin) | Upto 3x |
Commodity Future | N/A | Upto 3x |
Commodity Options | N/A | N/A |