High-frequency traders must be highly cost-conscious while choosing brokers

Platform reliability, time to meet margin calls are other key criteria for traders while selecting a broker

Karthik Jerome | New Delhi
Last Updated at January 25, 2023 19:20 IST

Markets, bulls, bears, stocks, trading, technicals, market technical, technical analysis

Platforms that execute trades with a discernible lag should be avoided.

Despite 2022 being a turbulent year when the Nifty 50 total return index barely managed to eke out a return of 5.7 per cent, 27.7 million demat accounts were added. This was only slightly lower than the 30.8 million accounts added in 2021 when the index had given a blockbuster return of 25.6 per cent. When entering the equity markets, investors need to choose their stock broker judiciously.

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