Solutions
Three very different problems. One layer solves all of them.
A brokerage app that only lets someone buy and sell gives them no reason to open it in between. A wealth platform that wants to offer strategies has to choose between a broking licence and embedding somebody else's product. An analyst with four good strategies has no consistent way to publish them. Same infrastructure, three completely different reasons to want it.
Software infrastructure only. No investment advice, no brokerage services, no guaranteed returns.
Solutions
Find yourself here
For Brokers
Add a governed strategy lifecycle to your existing web and mobile journeys while identity, entitlements, risk policy, OMS/RMS and market access stay yours.
For Fintech Platforms
Wealth platforms and fintechs can offer a governed strategy lifecycle while execution stays with an already-licensed broker.
For Research Analysts
Eligible verified SEBI-registered Research Analysts can manage, evidence and publish strategies under broker-governed verification, review and suspension controls.
The market moved, and most apps did not
Access to Indian markets has widened enormously while serious participation has narrowed. CDSL investor accounts went from 10 crore in November 2023 to 18.59 crore by June 2026. Over the same period the number of active individual equity-derivatives traders fell about 18% in FY26.
More people can trade than ever. Fewer of them are still trading derivatives a year later. SEBI's Press Release 50/2026 of 20 August 2026 reported that 87.7% of individual equity-derivatives traders lost money in FY26. That is regulatory context, not a Stretus figure, and the useful thing to take from it is not an opportunity to sell harder.
It is that the missing piece is process. Leverage, expiry, thin markets and picking the wrong contract punish people who are guessing. An app that hands someone an order button and a chart is not giving them a way to be disciplined. Rules they wrote down, tested and cannot quietly break at 2pm is.
That is the thing all three of these buyers are trying to add, from three different starting points.
87.7%
of individual equity-derivatives traders incurred losses in FY26.
SEBI Press Release 50/2026, 20 August 2026
Regulatory context, not Stretus performance.
The one thing that never moves
In every case the licensed broker keeps identity, permissions, risk policy, the order and risk systems, and the market connection. Stretus only ever occupies the strategy lifecycle in the middle. What changes between the three is who holds the customer and what they are trying to add.
That is not us being modest about scope. It is what the rules require. Under SEBI's circular of 4 February 2025, extended by circular SEBI/HO/MIRSD/MIRSD-PoD/P/CIR/2025/132 of 30 September 2025 and applicable to every stockbroker since 1 April 2026, a provider like us is approved by the broker and treated as the broker's agent, and cannot reach an exchange on its own. NSE circular NSE/INVG/67858 of 5 May 2025 puts full responsibility for every order leaving a broker's API systems on the broker.
So if a vendor offers you an architecture where that boundary is blurry, they have not read the circular, and the liability they are casually stepping into is yours.
What stays with the broker
- The broker remains the authority. Brand, client relationship, identity, entitlements, risk policy, OMS/RMS and market connectivity remain broker-owned.
- Stretus is not a broker and holds no exchange membership of its own.
- Stretus is not an investment adviser and publishes no recommendations.
- Stretus is not a portfolio manager and holds no client funds or securities.
- Stretus does not make execution decisions, the broker's OMS and RMS remain authoritative.
Where the three actually differ
| Brokers | Fintech platforms | Research analysts | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holds the customer | Yes | Yes | No, the broker does |
| Holds the licence | Yes | No | No |
| What they want | A product clients come back to | Capability without a licence | A consistent way to publish |
| What gets in the way | The OMS, the RMS and a network posture that took years to sign off | Finding and keeping the broker relationship | Verification, and the broker's publication policy |
| Where it usually runs | Inside their own estate | API-led behind their own front end | Inside a broker's tenant |
| First question they ask | What do we give up? | Do we need a licence? | Can I keep my logic private? |
Short answers, in order: nothing that matters, no, and yes.
Which page should you read?
If you hold an exchange membership, read the brokers page. If you hold customers but not a licence, read the fintech platforms page. If you are a verified SEBI-registered Research Analyst publishing under a broker, read the research analysts page.
If you are an institutional desk or an HNI and your real concern is keeping proprietary logic off somebody else's servers rather than adopting a platform at all, skip these three. The remote strategy execution page answers that directly: your model stays where it is, and only a signed order intent ever crosses the boundary.