Zerodha Kite New Update: Nithin Kamath Lists Six Changes in Trading Platform, How Will They Impact You?

Zerodha CEO Nithin Kamath listed major updates on Tuesday related to available margin, market depth, futures and options quantity, and user interface on Kite, the company's trading platform. Most of these changes will help improve user experience on the trading platform while simplifying the process and improving safety.

The financial services company made recent additions to simplify trading experience on Kite to handle large orders with ease. The new changes on Zerodha Kite will also improve transparency related to available margin funds and catalyse the futures and options trading.

For Zerodha users who are still figuring out about the new changes in Kite trading platform and how will they impact their expense on the application, here are all the details about the recent update shared by Nithin Kamath.

Zerodha Kite Update: What are the changes announced by Nithin Kamath?

The CEO of the bootstrapped company recently shared a major update on Zerodha Kite on his account on the social media platform X. In his post, Nithin Kamath mentioned that people would now be able to easily access market depth, remember F&O quantity and quickly build and execute multi-instrument orders on Kite trading platform.

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Zerodha Kite changes: What are they? How will they impact you?

Faster access to available margin

While trading from Kite order window, people would be able to instantly access their available funds on the Kite order window. The new update would let traders check their available margin faster, which was not possible earlier. They had to follow unnecessary steps in their trading process.

Zerodha Kite's new order slicing feature

In another update, Zerodha has brought a new order slicing feature that will tackle the exchange freezing quantity limits while placing a large order. The new order slicing feature will allow Zerodha's Kite to automatically split exchange limits into smaller parts for their execution.

Easier access to market depth on Kite order window

Traders will be able to access market depth data on Kite order window more easily after the new update. The platform has ditched the long process required earlier to check the information. Now, people can simply click the dropper icon to instantly see the top five bid and ask prices along with their quantities.

Remember F&O quantity

In another update, people can enjoy the automatic filling of the information related to F&O contracts and frequently execute their trade. Traders can enable this feature from their profile settings, and let Kite remember the quantity they entered for a contract. This will let Kite automatically fill the details when traders open the order window next time.

Market protection

This feature will give more control to traders over the orders they place while trading and save them while executing orders during market volatility. The stock market protection. Market protection range solves the problem by setting a predefined range around the current market price. At times, prices can fluctuate quickly while placing an order due to stock market volatility. But placing an order while implementing market protection feature will place a limit order with boundaries (based on predefined formula).