Is it legal to trade stocks in USA's stock exchanges as an Indian citizen?

:slight_smile: too many things to solve for (multiple regulators, registrations, FEMA, remittance, etc), will take some more time. Btw we have the streaming bit ready, so hopefully you should soon be able to add US stocks on marketwatch and start seeing live feeds/charts etc.

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this is good news. Now its confirmed that it is going to happen.

Its a good thing that we get to rade the biggest stock exchange. But i have a question. is it a really that good and better than the indian markets. Of course their stocks perform well and volume is high. Is there any other advantage over this?
like is the leverage allowed more? etc.
can someboddy shed some light here

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Hmm… you are allowed to only invest and not do any leverage trades or intraday trades etc. What is good is that you get to diversify your portfolio and reduce some India risk that it might carry. Also gives you access to companies whose products you might be currently using (uber, netflix, google, amazon, etc).

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@nithin in my understanding LRS is applicable to resident individuals. What if I set-up a trading company and open a trading account in with US broker to trade leveraged instruments? Is this legal? Well, I mean setting-up an Indian Company not any offshore company. Thanks in advance

You can hedge as a company, like an export company against currency, steel company against raw material products, etc. But you can’t just do derivatives trading.

The only way I can think of is by setting up an AIF (Hedge fund). Check point 34

This has been now increased to USD750 million.

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That means hedge funds set up in India are allowed to do leveraged trading in foreign markets.

Very interesting and it will be very profitable for us if all of this is at least half true. What kind of returns anybody getting with allowed stocks for Indian, I would love to see something, some real news from that. Good to see there is double taxation as well in question.

You mentioned only investing is allowed not intra day trading in US, can you link anything to verify that.

Coz I have been trading in US through webull, also interactive brokers says it’s legal other than investing in crypto.

are you trading leveraged products from the US markets?

I mean no leveraged products are allowed. Can check this RBI circular.

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Dear Siva,
RBI & SEBI both are not allowing to grow retailer wealth in stock market ,
margin system are very badly handling by SEBI , as you are big broker let rise against margin policy to SEBI,

Hi Nithin, any updates on this? :slightly_smiling_face:

A month more.

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This platform has been in the news lately, for Indian investors wanting to buy stocks in the US.

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Ok i dont want to go any other website to invest in US market, zerodha will come very soon to invest in USA market , we can go through zerodha , its safe

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As an Individual, Can i purchase stocks in Foreign Excchanges like US Markets and sell on the same day (Day trading)? Are there any restrictions related to the same from RBI?

  1. Diversification
  2. INR depreciates overtime against the USD
  3. Option to buy some good companies.

It should be taxed in India only; since we don’t have foreign tax identification number.

I get shares or Restricted stock units (ESOP) from my company around 25 to 30 shares every year which gets vested during October November time frame and my company shares are traded in NYSE and when it gets vested I have an option to pay the tax by money or I can choose to withhold shares. I will be taxed flat 30% after which based on tax slab I get refund in my payroll.

We use E-Trade to sell those shares (only to sell)

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