I was considering trading Nifty Bees, Short Term with holding period between (2-10 days, often less than a week).
But I think the STT benefits will get cancelled out with slippage if we approach a value of 1cr.
Request people here to post their experience of trading ETFs
NiftyBees
SilverBees
GoldBees
HDFCSML250 (Isnt liquid enough to reliably support even 50 lac trade value perhaps)
Instead of niftybees silverbees and goldbees, you can trade futures unless you wanna trade for value less than 15lakhs at a time. Just from liquidity points of view.
But like you mentioned, if you prefer them only for stt benefit, then your order may not even get filled most of the time.
Also you will get some benefit from the way these instruments are taxed. Fno goes at 30 percent. Stcg at 20.
I do trade ITbees and I feel it’s liquid enough.
Goldbees seems to be decent in volumes, median ~6M daily vol > 300cr. But charts look very noisy - spikes and gaps. Silver bees even more, thats 700cr median vol. Nifty just under 200.
gold/silver bees trades only till 1530, so you will miss a lot of data.
No idea about order book and whether market makers support it. Have never executed. Maybe trade only a fraction of capital on it and diversify to other things ?
Is CTT high ? i heard that some traders are moving to commodity futures because it hasnt been messed with as much in recent years. I am planning to look at that in future once current work is done. Maybe gold silver copper ? Crude and NG
Yes. That makes it much more of an investment product than a tradeable one 
CTT is manageable at 0.01%.
@Jason_Castelino
You may be using it as a opportunistic/bottom-fishing swing trading instrument. Otherwise with daily traded value of < 20cr it isnt really suited for a dedicated active trading strategy imo…
About Futures, now with volume being impacted greatly, spreads and STT increasing, we might have to settle for 0.2% overall (slip + taxes) if we are climbing onto momentum and getting out of opp momentum.
Maybe Iam trying too hard to trade something other than FnO, and the state of Indian markets is such that there appears to be no reliable cost effective choice for Short term traders.
Yeah I guess. I place the orders at limit and forget. It fills sometimes and sometimes it doesn’t. It works for me because I am always contra. If you are trading in the direction I guess you will have a lot of slippages. Trigger limit orders won’t fill that easily.