New Delhi [India], August 11 (ANI): Individuals trading in the equity Futures and Options (F&O) segment lost Rs 91,685 crore in the financial year ended March 2026, according to data shared by the Ministry of Finance in the Rajya Sabha. The data showed that 78.6 lakh individual traders participated in F&O trading in FY26, with the average loss per person standing at Rs 1,16,654. The ministry, in its reply to a Rajya Sabha question on retail investor protection in F&O trading, said SEBI had analysed "individual/retail participation in the F&O segment and their profitability outcome during the last five financial years." As per the SEBI analysis submitted by the government, individual traders recorded a net loss of Rs 91,685 crore in FY26, compared with a loss of Rs 1,11,788 crore in FY25. SEBI's risk disclosure mechanism requires brokers to inform individual traders that "nine out of 10 Individual traders made losses in F&O in FY22" when they log into trading platforms.