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can you recommend some good websites/brokers for buying/selling stocks in india?
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api wise there's just one at the retail level: interactive brokers (india). brokerage is high though - 3.5 bps for f&o and 5 bps for cash.  i've used sharekhan (good, can get to 2 bps brokerage, trading client software, no api). also used multiple other brokerages, and am advising a new one, zerodha http://www.zerodha.com. api wise the brokers don't provide it easily to retail, though i've worked with direct access apis at an institutional level.
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