It's in NSE's best interest to come up with more products that will boost its revenues. While i'm not for short selling right now given our volatile markets,margin trading can be introduced say in the next 5years or so as well as commodities and futures!

True Tracker funds can actually work at this very moment they have the simplicity of equities and diversifications of unit trusts.Maybe we get an additional -index that is a total return index rather than the priceindex we have this will reduce the tracking errors...

Shorting is only illegal on the NSE if you are caught. Its been prevalent since the KenGen IPO and CDSC ushered in the new error.

Anyway, imho we just need to have as many stocks listing as possible. I for example think that rather than forcing foreign firms to find 20/30% local partners, we should instead create an additional section for them to list on at the NSE.

We urgently need to bring the so-called OTC market into a more transparent exchange-who bought Suntra shares during them days and was stuck with them for ages. Or even missing out on CIC because you had to open an account with a Sacco et al.