Trade Smart Online is a Mumbai Based online discount brokerage brand by VNS Finance & Capital Services Ltd. VNS was founded by Mr.Vijay Singhania in 1994 as a full-service broker and entered into discount brokerage under the banner of Trade Smart Online in 2012. As per fresh data from NSE, VNS has 39,224 active clients under its belt and is successfully counted amongst the top 10 discount brokers in India. They do a daily exchange turnover of Rs 10,000 cr on NSE.
Trade Smart is hugely popular because of its low brokerage plans and excellent customer support. They offer trading on mobile( both iOS & Android) through their “SINE” application and web-based version called “Sine Web”.
Trade Smart offers a percent based Value Plan. It also offers a Power Trading Plan which is based on the flat-fee brokerage model.
Trade Smart offers two brokerage plans under the discount brokerage segment.
Segment | Brokerage |
Equity Intraday | Rs 15 per executed order |
Equity Delivery | Rs 15 per executed order |
Equity Futures | Rs 15 per executed order |
Equity Options | Rs 15 per executed order |
Currency Futures | Rs 15 per executed order |
Currency Options | Rs 15 per executed order |
Commodity Futures | Rs 15 per executed order |
Commodity Options | Rs 15 per executed order |
Segment | Brokerage |
Equity Intraday | 0.007% |
Equity Delivery | 0.07% |
Equity Futures | 0.007% |
Equity Options | Rs 7 per lot |
Currency Futures | 0.007% |
Currency Options | Rs 7 per lot |
Commodity Futures | 0.007% |
Commodity Options | Rs 7 per lot |
Note: There are no hidden charges, no advanced brokerage, and no minimum brokerage commitment in both the above plans.
Trade Smart Charges | Equity Intraday | Equity Delivery | Equity Futures | Equity Option | Currency Futures | Currency Options | MCX Futures | MCX Options |
STT/CTT | 0.025% | 0.10% both buy & sell | 0.01% on sell side | 0.05% on sell side (on premium) | No STT | No STT | 0.01% on sell side | 0.05% on the sell side |
Turnover Charges | 0.00345% | 0.00345% | 0.00250% | 0.075% | 0.00160% | 0.055% | 0.00390% | 0.02% |
GST | 18% | 18% | 18% | 18% | 18% | 18% | 18% | 18% |
Stamp Duty | 0.003% | 0.015% | 0.002% | 0.003% | 0.0001% | 0.0001% | 0.002% | 0.003% |
Sebi Fee | 0.00005% | 0.00005% | 0.00005% | 0.00005% | 0.00005% | 0.00005% | 0.00005% | 0.00005% |
Higher Exposure limits for intraday trades is one of the Unique Selling Point for Trade Smart. Exposure gives an advantage to the client to take high-value trade with low funds in their account. Trade Smart offers high exposure of 10x on an intraday basis. If you have Rs 10,000 in your trading account then you can trade up to Rs 1,00,000 for intraday.
Trade Smart does not offer any kind of exposure for overnight positions. Trade Smart offers Cover Order and Bracket Order facility to their clients.
Segment | Intraday | Overnight Positions | ||
MIS | C/O | B/O | ||
NSE Cash | Upto 10x | 10x | 10x | 1x |
BSE Cash | Upto 10x | N/A | N/A | 1x |
Equity/Index Futures | 2x | 2x | 2x | 1x |
Equity/Index Options Buying | 1x | 1x | 1x | 1x |
Equity/Index Options Writing (Selling) | 2x | 2x | 2x | 1x |
Currency Futures | 2x | 2x | 2x | 1x |
Currency Options Buying | 1x | N/A | N/A | 1x |
Currency Options Writing | 2x | N/A | N/A | 1x |
MCX Futures | 2x | 2x | 2x | 1x |
MCX Options | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1x |
You can open an account with Trade Smart within a couple of hours using the E-Sign Facility. Your mobile number should be linked with your Aadhar card for online account opening.
Read about Trade Smart Online account opening process
All documents should be self-attested.
Mobile number should be linked with Aadhar Card
Online account opening process takes maximum 24 hours to open a new account.
If your aadhar card doesn’t have linked mobile number then you can download it from website,print it and send duly signed form along with required documents to Company office by courier.
Offline account opening (Physical form) process takes a maximum of 2 working days to open a new account after receiving the form.
Clients can trade with Trade Smart Online in various ways. Trade Smart offers desktop trading software as well as a mobile app to its clients. Trade Smart offers Omnesys NEST and Dartstok for desktop users and the SINE Mobile app for trading. Also, it offers SINE web and Trade Smart Lite for web-based users.
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I am Trading through Trade smart online since 2018 and I am using plan 15 Rs per trade which was chipped rate as compared to others . My friend recommended this trading service to me . When I was opened and used mobile app , I was satisfied the customer service to resolve technical and transaction related query by Tradesmart. Thanks for tradesmart to providing best trading tool.
I am Trading through Trade smart online since long time and find customer service very good. It has mobile based trading app which allow you to put orders in BSE exchange smoothly with other good features.
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I am trading through Tradesmart since 2014 and I have saved a lot of money on brokerage using Rs 15/order plan…
Highly recommended……
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