Maybe they’ve changed the rules for Indians. But that’s cool too, you can do some limited options strategies with that account, but not comfortable advising legality of it on a forum, but as far as I know, there are legal ways to do it, you’ll have to do your own research if you’re serious enough.
I think we should start a change.org petition… If my technical lingo was good, I would have created the page and shared with you… but… it is not…
So, someone please create a page to put some pressure on SEBI to do this margin reduction thing fast. and share the page here… This is a highly watched thread. So, this could work.
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THe ecosystem for profitable options trading seems to have caught pace in India now. Once SEBI rationalizes the margining system, it will really be amazing, especially for someone like me who trades for a living.
Zerodha has done great by creating the facility to pledge liquid MF’s. Now being the biggest and savviest broker in India, I would urge @nithin to please take a lead in explaining to SEBI about the perils of current margin system and how reducing margins on spreads will not increase risk (rather more traders would be incentivised to take hedged positions)
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This should happen soon I believe, we just need to wait for some more time.
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That seems like a great news coming from you…fingers crossed!
People are posting comments on this thred from very long time…
Did anyone find a way to margin trade US stocks from india?
There is no way one can do margin trade via LRS route.
Yes, at-least in top/popular companies.
@siva , before introducing in US market please let educate us to brief about platform and us market and products
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Yes, we will be doing in course of time.
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We do use many U.S products in our daily life. Also, we can get data from the web.
So can a Category III AIF take positions in CFDs overseas?
Difficult to go through that route as minimum corpus is 20 crores to start an Cat III AIF, but still.
They can invest overseas up to 25% of total funds or 50 cr, which ever is max. Also they can’t use leverage more than 2 times, so not sure if they can/will buy cfds as cfds are almost like gambling instruments with higher leverage.
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yupp no one in their sane minds would take that kind of leverage…
but one can operate this way by AIF that is concluded…
Siva if derivatives are not allowed in US markets then how would one hedge their portfolio against risk?
That wouldn’t be considered as Margin trading and hence I guess can be justified. I don’t think LRS mentions anything against trading in derivatives, they only state margin trading is not allowed.
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Waiting for Zerodha to Open up Overseas investing for Indian Retail Participants…
one of the best tihing in US market all bluechip companies will declare dividended every quarter that means every 3 Months -
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Oh That is nice Riyas … Good Cash Flow 
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