I'm an individual retail investor trading my own account via the Kite Connect API. I've built my own private trading system (not from an empanelled Algo Provider, no vendor involved) and I place at most 2 orders/day — well under the 10 orders/second threshold that the NSE circular treats as the 'only exception' to algo registration. My system runs on my own cloud server located in India (Mumbai region), not on Zerodha's infrastructure. Does the SOP requirement that 'all algo strategies be hosted on the broker's cloud' apply to my category (Tech Savvy retail investor within OPS threshold), or does that requirement only bind registered/vendor-hosted algos?
If your strategy places 10 orders per second (OPS) or fewer, exchange algo registration is not required. Strategies exceeding 10 OPS need to be registered with the exchange.
For strategies within the 10 OPS limit, you may host them on your preferred infrastructure, including cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or any other cloud service, as long as the applicable API requirements (such as using the registered static IP for order placement) are met.
For strategies within the 10 OPS limit, you may host them on your preferred infrastructure, including cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or any other cloud service, as long as the applicable API requirements (such as using the registered static IP for order placement) are met.