SEBI's New Algo Trading Rules for Retail Traders: What Changed in April 2026 (opens in new tab)

SEBI's New Algo Trading Rules for Retail Traders: What Changed in April 2026 For most of the last decade, algorithmic trading in India existed in a grey zone for retail investors. Institutions had a clear regulatory framework. Retail traders who used broker APIs to automate their strategies were technically allowed to do so, but there was no formal structure around it. Nobody had defined who was responsible if something went wrong, or what standards an automated system had to meet. That chang...