Winning Bizness Desk

Mumbai. Market regulator SEBI has conducted a study whose results are very interesting. It has said that married traders who buy and sell shares on a daily basis (intra-day) in the stock market have been able to achieve much better results than unmarried traders. SEBI has found this in a study conducted among 'intra-day' traders, in which it has also been said that in the case of 'intra-day' trading, women are able to earn more profits than male traders. This interesting analysis has come to light in a study of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) regarding 'intra-day' trading in the equity cash segment. Conducting both the buying and selling activities of a share in a single trading session is called 'intra-day' trading.

What study says

According to this study, apart from married and single traders, there is a lot of difference between the deal-related behavior and results between male and female traders. SEBI has found that married intra-day traders in the equity cash segment outperformed singles in several key areas. Married traders incurred less losses in intra-day trades than single traders during FY 2018-19, 2021-22 and 2022-23. During FY 2022-23, 75 per cent of unmarried traders incurred losses as compared to 67 per cent of married traders who incurred losses.

Married traders executed higher number of trades

Additionally, married traders also executed a much higher number of trades. An important aspect of SEBI’s study is the comparative analysis of male and female traders. In all these years, female traders had a higher proportion of consistent profit-making than male traders. According to the study report, “In all three years, the proportion of profit-making in the group of female traders was higher than that of the group of male traders.” During the financial year 2022-23, male traders with annual 'intra-day' turnover of more than Rs 1 crore suffered an average loss of Rs 38,570 while female traders suffered an average loss of Rs 22,153 during this period. However, the proportion of women among traders doing 'intra-day' deals declined from 20 per cent in the financial year 2018-19 to 16 per cent in the financial year 2022-23.