India’s largest retail stockbroker Zerodha is bracing for a fresh revenue hit as weekly options face potential regulatory curbs, and co-founder Nithin Kamath isn’t sugarcoating the fallout.

In a post on X, Kamath acknowledged that Zerodha will likely take another short-term revenue blow but he reinforced his long-held philosophy that long-term trust beats short-term earnings. Advertisement

“When you're building a business for the long term, focusing on quarterly or even annual growth is a poor metric,” he wrote.

The post comes a day after Kamath revealed in a 15th-anniversary blog that Zerodha may start charging for equity delivery trades for the first time — a massive shift from its zero-brokerage model.

The move, Kamath says, is driven by a 40% drop in brokerage income, triggered b

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