SEBI’s study shows that 93% of individual traders in futures and options lost money between FY22 and FY24.

A recent analysis by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) found that nine out of ten individual traders in the equity futures and options (F&O) segment faced substantial losses, totaling over ₹1.8 lakh crore from FY22 to FY24.

The SEBI study indicated that 93% of more than 1 crore individual F&O traders experienced losses, averaging about ₹2 lakh per trader (including transaction costs) over this three-year period.

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