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Compliance & Disclosure

What Stocktale is, and what it is not

Last updated 28 July 2026 · reviewed quarterly and on any change in applicable SEBI regulation

1 · Who runs this

Stocktale is run by Sagar U.S., Bengaluru — eighteen years in the securities market as a researcher, author, trader and speaker, with sessions delivered at 60+ educational institutions, and past empanelment as a Resource Person with BSE and with CDSL. He no longer holds either empanelment.

Past empanelment as a BSE or CDSL Resource Person was a training credential. It is not a SEBI registration and confers no authority to advise on securities.

2 · Not an advisory service — by design

SEBI's Investment Adviser and Research Analyst registrations govern those who give advice on securities. Stocktale gives none. Our purpose is the opposite: a reader who can read the market for himself and never needs to be told what to buy.

Stated plainly, so there is no room for doubt:

3 · What this platform does

Stocktale publishes market commentary and a daily journal:

The purpose is a reader who can read the market for himself and no longer needs us.

4 · What is never published

5 · Market data policy

Indices. Commentary on broad-based indices uses current data. Index commentary falls within the exclusions to the definition of “research report” under the SEBI (Research Analysts) Regulations, 2014, which exclude comments on general trends in the securities market, discussions on broad-based indices, commentaries on economic, political or market conditions, and technical analysis relating to demand and supply in a sector or the index.

Individual securities. Stocktale does not publish data on individual securities in any form.

Educational sessions. Where market price data is used in teaching material, college workshops, recorded lessons or screen-shared content, that data carries a minimum 30-day lag, in line with the SEBI framework effective 1 July 2026. No live or recent price data is used in any educational session.

Paid content. Paid material never goes beyond the same content lines as the free material. Nothing sharper sits behind the paywall.

Personal trading. The operator's private trading is a separate stream that never enters any Stocktale page, session, message or publication.

6 · No association with regulated intermediaries

Stocktale holds no referral, affiliate, commission, marketing or data-sharing arrangement with any stockbroker, exchange, depository, mutual fund, portfolio manager or other SEBI-regulated intermediary. No broker links. No affiliate codes. No lead-sharing. No revenue from any intermediary.

Stocktale earns from readers directly, and from educational sessions. Nothing else.

7 · Advertising

There is no advertising on this platform. No third party pays to appear here or to influence what is published.

8 · Errors and corrections

A wrong figure is corrected on the page and the correction stated openly. Any content found to cross into advice or a performance claim is withdrawn the same day, and the rule that failed is written down permanently. No silent edits.

9 · Your responsibility

Nothing here is personalised to your situation — we do not know your income, obligations, risk capacity or goals. Markets carry risk of loss, including total loss of capital; derivatives carry risk exceeding the amount invested.

Before acting on anything, consult a SEBI-registered Investment Adviser or Research Analyst. Verify any registration at www.sebi.gov.in under “Intermediaries”.

10 · Complaints

Write to us first at the address below. If unresolved, you may approach SEBI through the SCORES portal, or the SEBI toll-free helpline 1800 22 7575 / 1800 266 7575.

11 · Contact

Stocktale · Sagar U.S.
217/57, 1st Floor, 11th Cross, Swimming Pool Extension,
Yalappa Garden, Malleshwaram, Bengaluru – 560003, Karnataka, India
+91 97311 99114 · sagar@stocktale.in