Mumbai, July 7 -- Nearly 91 per cent of individual traders incurred net loss in Equity Derivatives Segment (EDS) at the aggregate level, in the recently concluded financial year 2024-25, a SEBI analysis of profit and loss of such traders suggests.

A similar trend was observed in 2023-24 too.

This SEBI analysis comes after certain media reports claimed that investor losses had started to reduce, after the markets regulator had on October 1, 2024, introduced some measures to strengthen the equity index derivatives framework.

Markets regulator SEBI has analysed the trading activity of all investors and individual investors, for the period December 2024 to May 2025, to present the factual impact of measures to strengthen the equity index d...