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How to place an order without adding to a marketwatch on Kite

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

You can place a buy or sell order on Kite , Zerodha’s trading platform, without first adding the instrument to a marketwatch . The marketwatch is a watchlist for tracking live prices, not a precondition for trading. Kite opens an order ticket for any tradable instrument straight from universal search, from your Holdings tab, from your Positions tab, or from the option chain, and you submit the order without the instrument ever entering a list.

52-week high and low on the Kite marketwatch

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The 52-week high and 52-week low on a Kite scrip’s market depth panel are the highest and lowest traded prices over the rolling 52 calendar weeks ending today. Together they define the one-year price range of the security, a widely used reference for screening and position sizing.

Definition

For any equity, ETF, or other listed security, the 52-week high and low are computed by the exchange and republished daily:

52-week high = max(LTP) over the rolling 52-week window.
52-week low = min(LTP) over the rolling 52-week window.

The window rolls daily; the 53-week-ago observation drops off as today’s observation is added.

Absolute and percentage change from open on Kite

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Change from open on the Kite marketwatch is the LTP minus today’s opening price, expressed in absolute (rupees) and percentage terms. It is distinct from the default day’s change column, which measures vs the previous day’s close.

When change-from-open matters

For an intraday trader, the question is not “how has this stock moved since yesterday” but “how has it moved since the open today”. Two scenarios make the distinction obvious:

Big gap-up open

Previous close: Rs 1,000.
Open: Rs 1,050.
Current LTP: Rs 1,055.
Day’s change (vs previous close): +Rs 55, +5.5%.
Change from open: +Rs 5, +0.48%.

The day’s change paints a dramatic picture; change-from-open shows that intraday movement is tiny. An intraday momentum trader reads “+5.5%” as a strong day, but “+0.48%” suggests the stock is consolidating at the gap.

Briefcase symbol on Kite

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The briefcase symbol on the Kite marketwatch is a small icon (a stylised briefcase / portfolio glyph) that appears on the right side of a scrip row when the user holds shares of that instrument in their portfolio. It is purely a visual cue, not a clickable target, and is one of the small UX affordances that distinguish a “watched” scrip from a “held” one.

Where it appears

Surface	Where the briefcase shows
Kite web marketwatch row	Right of the LTP, before the change column
Kite mobile app marketwatch	Right of the row, beside the LTP
Quote screen	Top of the scrip detail view (mobile only)

The icon is grey when the user holds the scrip in delivery (CNC) ; it switches to a different shade or carries a small overlay when there is an open intraday position on the same scrip.

Commodity info widget on the Kite marketwatch

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The commodity info widget on Kite is a marketwatch surface for the MCX (Multi Commodity Exchange) segment. It renders live quotes, lot sizes, and contract month conventions for the gold, silver, base metals, energy, and agri commodity contracts traded on MCX, alongside the equity marketwatch.

For each commodity contract added to the marketwatch, the widget surfaces:

LTP: Live traded price during MCX session hours (09:00 to 23:30 IST).
Change: Absolute and percentage change from previous close.
Volume: Total contracts traded today.
Open interest (OI): Open contracts at the end of the previous trading day (refreshes overnight).
Lot size: Contracts standardised by MCX (e.g., gold = 1 kg, gold mini = 100 g, gold petal = 1 g).
Tick size: Minimum price movement.

MCX segment hours

MCX commodity session has two phases on most days:

Day's change in absolute and percentage on Kite

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The day’s change column on the Kite marketwatch shows how far the scrip has moved from the previous trading day’s closing price. Kite displays both the absolute change (in rupees) and the percentage change, with colour coding (green for positive, red for negative). This article covers the calculation, the column toggle, and the corner cases.

Calculation

For any tradable instrument:

Absolute change = LTP - Previous close.
Percentage change = ((LTP - Previous close) / Previous close) x 100.

Where:

Delivery volume percentage on the Kite marketwatch

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Delivery volume percentage on a Kite marketwatch scrip row is the share of total day’s volume that resulted in actual delivery to demat accounts, expressed as a percentage. It distinguishes delivery (CNC) trades that result in demat credit from intraday (MIS) trades that are squared off the same day.

How the metric is defined

For any equity scrip on a given trading day, NSE and BSE report:

Total traded quantity. The aggregate of all buy and sell trades, divided by 2.
Deliverable quantity. The subset where the buyer chose CNC (carry to demat) and the seller delivered from holdings.

Delivery volume percentage = (Deliverable quantity / Total traded quantity) x 100.

Event tag on the Kite marketwatch

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The event tag on a Kite marketwatch scrip row is a small calendar or briefcase glyph that flags an upcoming corporate action on that instrument. It is one of the most useful pieces of contextual information surfaced by Kite, because corporate actions often produce the LTP discontinuities and apparent “errors” that retail investors then report as bugs.

Where the event tag appears

On Kite web , the event tag is a small icon at the right edge of the scrip row, between the LTP and the change column. Hovering the icon shows a tooltip with the event type and the date. On the Kite mobile app , the icon appears in the row and the tap-down quote screen shows the expanded event card.

How to add F&O contracts to the Kite marketwatch

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

F&O contracts on the Kite marketwatch use the NSE NFO segment tag. The contract universe spans index derivatives (Nifty, BankNifty, FinNifty, MidcapNifty), stock derivatives, and the much smaller NSE currency derivative book (CDS tag).

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How to add instruments to the marketwatch on Kite

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This is the short form of the marketwatch-add procedure on Kite . Whether the instrument is an equity scrip, an F&O contract, an MCX commodity, an ETF, a sovereign gold bond, or a G-sec, the addition flow is the same five clicks.

How to add MCX F&O contracts to the Kite marketwatch

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

MCX commodity contracts (gold, silver, crude oil, natural gas, base metals, agri) are added to the Kite marketwatch like any other instrument, but require the commodity segment to be active on the Zerodha account.

How to add Nifty 50, Sensex and other indices to the Kite marketwatch

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Indices are the headline macro markers of Indian equity markets. This guide covers adding Nifty 50 , Sensex , BankNifty , FinNifty , India VIX , and the broader NIFTY sector/strategy series to a Kite marketwatch.

How to add Notes on the Kite marketwatch

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Notes is a low-friction annotation layer on the Kite marketwatch: a short text field attached to any scrip row, stored server-side, and surfaced via a small icon. It is not an alert, not a target order, just a scratchpad to record why a scrip is on the watchlist.

How to add scrips to the Kite marketwatch

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Kite marketwatch is the price-streaming panel through which most Zerodha retail flows route. This guide walks through adding any tradable instrument, equity scrip, F&O contract, currency pair, commodity, ETF, or sovereign gold bond, to a Kite marketwatch on both Kite web and the Kite mobile app .

How to brand-search on the Kite marketwatch

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Kite marketwatch search supports substring matching against company name, brand, and symbol. This lets you find a listed entity even when you only remember the brand or the parent group, useful for Indian conglomerates where dozens of subsidiaries are listed under similar names.

How to create multiple marketwatch in Kite

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Kite lets a single account run up to five named marketwatch tabs in parallel. The cap is the same on Kite web and the Kite mobile app ; the watchlists are stored server-side, so a tab created on web appears on the app within seconds.

How to fix Day's change showing incorrect vs previous close on Kite

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When the day’s change column on the Kite marketwatch shows a value that does not match what you compute by subtracting the LTP from the previous close, the cause is almost always a corporate-action adjustment, a session phase issue, or a brief data-feed lag.

How to fix Invalid CSRF token error on Kite marketwatch

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Invalid CSRF token error on Kite is a security check failure: the browser-side token Kite uses to verify the request matches the server-side session has rotated, become stale, or been cleared. Almost always a benign re-login fixes it.

How to fix LTP showing zero on the Kite marketwatch

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Zero LTP on a Kite marketwatch row almost always means the contract has not traded recently, not that Kite is broken. This guide walks through the common causes ordered by frequency.

How to fix Pinned overview resets to Nifty on Kite

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The overview strip at the top of the Kite marketwatch shows one index (default: Nifty 50). Clicking the strip cycles through Sensex, BankNifty and FinNifty in supported builds. A common complaint: the selection resets to Nifty after navigation or re-login. This guide covers the workarounds.

How to fix texts or numbers overlapping on the Kite marketwatch

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Overlapping text or numbers on the Kite marketwatch is almost always a client-side rendering issue, not a Kite server issue. This guide walks through the diagnostic in order of frequency.

How to pin a stock or index to the top of the Kite marketwatch

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Pinning a scrip on the Kite marketwatch lifts it above the scroll fold so the row is always visible. This is useful for an active intraday position or a chart-of-the-day. The default pinned row at the very top of every marketwatch is the Nifty 50 overview (which is a separate, non-removable Kite feature); the watchlist pin sits below that overview.

How to save marketwatch settings on Kite

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Kite saves marketwatch settings server-side automatically. There is no explicit Save button; every change you make (add scrip, reorder, pin, add note) is committed within seconds. The configuration follows your Kite account across web, app, and devices.

How to search Sovereign Gold Bonds on Kite

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGBs) are government-issued bonds denominated in grams of gold, paying 2.5% annual interest and redeemable at the prevailing gold price at maturity. After their issue window closes, SGBs list on NSE and BSE for secondary-market trading. This guide covers searching for and adding them to a Kite marketwatch.

How to update the Kite app for new marketwatch features

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Several Kite marketwatch features (the 250-instrument cap, the redesigned overview, Notes, pin) roll out via app updates. Users on older builds will not see these features even if their account is fully active. This guide is the simple update path.

LTP difference between Holdings and marketwatch on Kite

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A common point of confusion: the LTP shown for a scrip on the Kite Holdings tab does not exactly match the LTP shown for the same scrip on the marketwatch . The discrepancy is small (usually a few paise to a few rupees) but is regularly reported as a “bug”. It is almost always explainable by one of a handful of causes.

The four common causes

1. Refresh timing

The marketwatch streams live ticks at sub-second frequency. The Holdings tab refreshes the LTP for each row at a slightly slower cadence (every few seconds, throttled to reduce server load). A quote that ticked one second ago will appear on the marketwatch immediately and on Holdings after a small delay.

LTP difference between marketwatch and chart on Kite

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A common observation: the LTP shown on the Kite marketwatch row for a scrip differs slightly from the LTP shown on the chart for the same scrip at the same moment. Usually a few paise to a few rupees, this difference comes from the way the two surfaces consume the exchange tick feed.

The two surfaces consume ticks differently

Surface	What it consumes	Refresh cadence
Marketwatch row	Real-time tick stream	Sub-second
Chart (TradingView or ChartIQ)	Aggregated OHLC bars	Bar-aggregated; live trade updates within the in-progress bar

The marketwatch displays the very last tick that arrived. The chart’s last bar updates with each tick within the bar’s timeframe (e.g., a 1-minute bar accumulates ticks until the minute closes), and the chart-displayed LTP is the price of the most recent tick consumed by the chart engine.

Redesigned marketwatch on Kite web

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The redesigned marketwatch on Kite web is the current default left-hand panel layout that replaced the legacy compact-list design. The redesign expanded the per-watchlist instrument cap to 250 (from the previous lower limit), added inline action icons, refreshed the search behaviour, and overhauled the row layout.

What changed in the redesign

Aspect	Legacy layout	Redesigned layout
Instruments per watchlist	Lower (cap varied by build)	250 per watchlist
Action icons	Hover-revealed at row edge	Hover-revealed; richer set (Notes, Pin, Alert, GTT)
Search bar	Static input	Auto-complete with segment tags and exchange differentiation
Tab management	5 tabs, basic create / rename	5 tabs, drag-reorder, inline rename
Depth panel	Click row to open	Click row to open; richer depth view
Density toggle	Not available	Compact / expanded toggle
Briefcase / event tag indicators	Not on every row	Visible on every relevant row

250-instrument capacity

The redesign raised the per-watchlist cap to 250 instruments on Kite web. The Kite mobile app staged the same change; users on older app builds may still see a 50-instrument cap until they update the app .

How to use the marketwatch on Kite

Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The marketwatch is the primary instrument panel on Zerodha Kite , displaying live price data, change metrics and market depth for the financial instruments you want to monitor. On Kite web , the marketwatch occupies the left-hand panel and persists across the platform. On the Kite mobile app , the marketwatch is the first tab in the bottom navigation. This guide walks through setting up and using the marketwatch effectively.

Understanding the marketwatch layout

The marketwatch on Kite web is a vertical panel on the left side of the screen. It contains:

Marketwatch on WebNotes

How to place an order without adding to a marketwatch on Kite

52-week high and low on the Kite marketwatch

Definition

Absolute and percentage change from open on Kite

When change-from-open matters

Big gap-up open

Briefcase symbol on Kite

Where it appears

Commodity info widget on the Kite marketwatch

What the widget shows

MCX segment hours

Day's change in absolute and percentage on Kite

Calculation

Delivery volume percentage on the Kite marketwatch

How the metric is defined

Event tag on the Kite marketwatch

Where the event tag appears

How to add F&O contracts to the Kite marketwatch

How to add instruments to the marketwatch on Kite

How to add MCX F&O contracts to the Kite marketwatch

How to add Nifty 50, Sensex and other indices to the Kite marketwatch

How to add Notes on the Kite marketwatch

How to add scrips to the Kite marketwatch

How to brand-search on the Kite marketwatch

How to create multiple marketwatch in Kite

How to fix Day's change showing incorrect vs previous close on Kite

How to fix Invalid CSRF token error on Kite marketwatch

How to fix LTP showing zero on the Kite marketwatch

How to fix Pinned overview resets to Nifty on Kite

How to fix texts or numbers overlapping on the Kite marketwatch

How to pin a stock or index to the top of the Kite marketwatch

How to save marketwatch settings on Kite

How to search Sovereign Gold Bonds on Kite

How to update the Kite app for new marketwatch features

LTP difference between Holdings and marketwatch on Kite

The four common causes

1. Refresh timing

LTP difference between marketwatch and chart on Kite

The two surfaces consume ticks differently

Redesigned marketwatch on Kite web

What changed in the redesign

250-instrument capacity

How to use the marketwatch on Kite

Understanding the marketwatch layout