Market Guide
Seven short guides that take you from your first Demat form to a settled trade and a book-close you understand.
Market Guide · Nepal Stock Exchange
Learn the market the way it actually works in Nepal.
Accounts, MeroShare, placing an order, settlement, costs, dividends and book-close dates — explained in plain language with NEPSE examples, in the order a new investor meets them. Read the guides top to bottom, or jump to the one you need today.
The numbers to know
NEPSE's essentials at a glance. Each opens the part of a guide that explains it.
- Trading days Sun – Thu Pre-open 10:30–11:00 · trading 11:00–15:00 Trading Procedure
- Settlement T+2 Shares and money two trading days after the trade Trading Procedure
- Daily price band ±10% ±2% in the pre-open · index halts at 4, 5 and 6% Trading Procedure
- Last day to buy for a benefit Book close − 2 Trading days, because of T+2 settlement Book Close
- Broker commission 0.24–0.36% By trade value, minimum Rs 10 · SEBON fee 0.015% Trading Procedure
- Capital-gains tax 5% · 7.5% Individuals: held a year or more · less · companies 10% Trading Procedure
- Seller's transfer (EDIS) By T+1 In MeroShare, for every sale MeroShare
- Smallest IPO application 10 shares Allotted by lottery in lots of ten MeroShare
The journey
Each guide builds on the one before it. Every page has a table of contents, what to remember and a link to the next step.
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Guide 1
Beginner's Guide
How the NEPSE market works, what you need before your first order, and a six-month plan that keeps the risk small while you learn.
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Guide 2
Demat Account
What a Demat account is, which documents to bring, what it costs, and how it links to MeroShare and your broker.
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Guide 3
MeroShare
Logging in, applying for IPOs and rights through My ASBA, checking allotments, and the EDIS step every seller has to do.
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Guide 4
Trading Procedure
From funding your broker account to a settled trade: order types, market hours, price bands, T+2 settlement and every rupee of cost.
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Guide 5
Book Close
The dates that decide who receives a dividend, bonus or right share, how prices adjust on the ex-date, and the last day to buy.
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Guide 6
FAQ
Short answers to the questions investors ask most, grouped as basic, intermediate and advanced, with search.
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Guide 7
Glossary
The vocabulary of the Nepali market — accounts, trading, corporate actions, valuation and technical terms — each with a NEPSE example.
Then put it to work
The guides explain the market; Portexa Investment Intelligence reads it for you every session.
- Company valuationWeighted sector-appropriate models, ten-year forecasts and a margin of safety for companies with published statements.
- Corporate actions calendarBook closes, dividends and rights, with the last buying date worked out.
- TradeMoodWhich stocks are being bought and which are being sold, session by session.
- Own portfolioRecord your buys and sells and watch the position, cost and P/L.
- FundamentalsEPS, PE, ROE and the statements behind them, company by company.
- NRB & SEBON circularsThe regulators' latest directives, newest first, beside market and company news.
About the Market Guide. Written for investors in the Nepal Stock Exchange. Fees, tax rates, market hours and price bands follow the schedules published by NEPSE, SEBON, CDSC and the Inland Revenue Department and change from time to time — confirm the current figure with your broker or depository participant before you act on it. Nothing here is investment advice.