Indian Retail F&O Losses Reach ₹91,685 Crore Despite SEBI Curbs

Some grown-ups in India play a money game called trading, where they guess whether the price of a company's shares will go up or down.

A very risky version of this game is called futures and options, or F&O for short.

Last year, the people who played this risky game lost a huge amount of money — ₹91,685 crore.

A rule-making organization called SEBI tries to keep people safe by making the game harder and safer to play.

This year, fewer people played, and the total losses were a little smaller than the year before.

The number of players dropped from almost 10 million to fewer than 8 million.

But the people who kept playing still lost a lot of money, which shows the safety rules did not fully work.

The market where the game is played also became quieter, with less money moving through it.

Some experts say the safety rules are good, but they must make sure the game still works well for everyone else.