How Indian Investors Can Profit from US Stocks: Understanding Market Timings & Strategies

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Yes, Indian residents can invest in the US stock market, if the total annual amount is less than US$ 250,000 per year per individual. This is in accordance with the RBI’s Liberalized Remittance Scheme guidelines.

We do not impose a minimum investment. However, there would be a minimum amount requirement from your bank to transfer the funds. Kindly check with your bank to confirm.

No, as an Indian resident, you do not require a separate bank account in the US for trading purposes. You can use your Indian bank account to fund your brokerage account via LRS and then trade directly in the US market.

There are two types of orders you can place:
Market Order: A market order is a buy or sell order to be executed immediately at the current market prices.
Limit Order: A limit order is an order to buy or sell a stock at a specific price or better. A buy limit order can only be executed at the limit price or lower, and a sell limit order can only be executed at the limit price or higher. A limit order is not guaranteed to be executed.

You will earn dividend for shares you hold in your portfolio. Dividends are distributed in proportion to the share that you own, rounded down to the nearest cent. example: if you own 50.003 quantities of shares and the dividend declared is $55 per share, then you get $2,750.17.

Your brokerage account is managed by ViewTrade International IFSC Private Ltd. (VTI IFSC). VTI IFSC works with VTS for trade clearing and custodian aspects of user accounts. VTS is registered as a securities broker-dealer with the US Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”), (SEC# 8-51605) and is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) (CRD# 46987); and Securities Investor Protection Corporation (“SIPC”).

No, due to US regulatory requirements, intraday trading of US Stocks is not allowed on VTI IFSC.

All trades are executed on the NYSE and NASDAQ, which are routed via Smart Order Routing (SOR) system to market centers on an agency basis by the broker partner.

Currently, it is not possible yet to directly subscribe to IPOs because access to U.S. IPOs for retail investors is limited. At the moment, we make companies available immediately post-IPO. We will aim to make this available over time.