New Delhi, March 31 -- As a thumb-rule for stock market investing, doing less is more. "The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient," Warren Buffet famously said. However, exchange rules require you to make some transactions in your broking account to keep it active.

To be sure, the activity need not just be in stocks; it could be in any segment of an exchange and for the smallest possible value. But if there is no activity for 24 consecutive months, the account will be flagged as 'inactive' and no new transaction will be allowed in the broking account.

Once a broking account turns inactive, you have to follow the re-KYC (know your customer) process, which can be done online in most cases. Here is a loo...