Retail algo buying and selling, which permits traders to make use of automated methods through laptop applications, can be supplied by means of software programming interfaces (APIs).
As a part of the brand new glide path, brokers should apply for registration of no less than one algo technique with the inventory trade by October 31.
The Securities and Alternate Board of India stated that full registration of API-based retail algo merchandise should be accomplished by November 30. To check the brand new techniques, brokers are additionally required to take part in no less than one mock buying and selling session by January 3, 2026.
Brokers who fail to satisfy these deadlines can be restricted from onboarding new retail shoppers for API-based algo buying and selling beginning January 5, the regulator warned.
 The measures comply with the SEBI’s earlier round that launched guidelines for the approval, monitoring and regulation of algo buying and selling for particular person traders.  The framework requires brokers to get prior permission from inventory exchanges for every algo and mandates a novel identifier on every order to keep up an audit path. The SEBI’s transfer comes amid rising retail curiosity in algorithmic methods, which provide sooner execution and decrease prices. In keeping with a SEBI examine, algorithmic buying and selling made up 97% of overseas investor and 96% of proprietary dealer income in futures and choices throughout FY24.
 
			 
		    











