Married traders outperform single counterparts in profit-making: Sebi study

Markets regulator Sebi has delved into the patterns of intraday trading, revealing a surprising new factor influencing trading performance: relationship status. The regulator's analysis suggests stark differences between the trading behaviours and outcomes of married and single traders, as well as between male and female traders. The Sebi's study, on intraday trading in equity cash segment, found that married traders tend to outperform their single counterparts in several key areas. During the years -- FY19, FY22 and FY23-- examined by the regulator, the proportion of loss-makers was lower among married traders compared to single traders. "On comparing single vs married traders group, married traders group had a higher proportion of profit-makers than single traders group across all the three years," the study revealed. Besides, group of married traders had lower proportion of loss-makers than single traders across years. During FY23, 75 per cent of single traders were loss-makers