F&O Reality Check
Futures & options ads show the winners. This shows the maths they skip: the costs that drain your capital every year no matter what, next to SEBI’s own data on how retail traders actually do. Your numbers stay in your browser.
This is educational maths using your own numbers and SEBI’s published data. It is not advice, not a tip, and not a prediction of your results. Charges are illustrative current rates and change — always check your broker’s contract note.
What SEBI’s own data says
- 91% of individual F&O traders lost money in FY2024-25 — roughly 9 in 10.
- The average net loss was about ₹1.1 lakh per trader for the year.
- Individual traders lost ₹1.05 lakh crore in equity derivatives in FY25 — up 41% on the year before.
- This was the second year running that ~9 in 10 retail traders ended in the red.
Source: SEBI study on individual traders in the equity derivatives segment (FY2024-25). Figures are SEBI’s; shown for education, not as a forecast of any individual’s outcome.