SEBI curbs cool F&O participation by 20%, but traders still lose ₹91,685 crore

The Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (SEBI’s) measures to curb excessive speculation in equity derivatives have coincided with a sharp cooling in retail participation, with the number of active individual traders falling for the first time since FY16. But despite fewer traders, individual investors still incurred net losses of ₹91,685 crore in FY26, while the average loss per trader increased

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