New Delhi, July 10 -- Shankar Sharma, a veteran investor, recently called out the exorbitant cost of options trading in the Indian stock market, using it to highlight the unchecked pricing power held by monopolistic institutions in India's capital markets - the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and the BSE.

Despite not being government-owned, these exchanges operate as state-enabled monopolies, that control the infrastructure on which India's entire trading ecosystem depends.

Shankar Sharma in a post on X on July 9, said, "One thing I can categorically say: trading options in India is frightfully expensive compared to other markets (I do both). Trading charges in India eat away returns massively. And that goes to SE bottomlines, out of inve...