{"id":25041,"date":"2026-02-17T12:25:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=25041"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:25:33","slug":"can-a-minor-open-an-individual-demat-trading-account","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/article\/can-a-minor-open-an-individual-demat-trading-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a minor open an individual Demat &#038; trading account?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Yes<\/strong>, a minor can open a <strong>Trading &amp; Demat account<\/strong>, but only with the help of a <strong>parent or legal guardian<\/strong>. The guardian manages the account until the minor turns 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, a minor <strong>cannot <\/strong>trade in stocks, F&amp;O, or any market product.When the minor turns 18, the Demat account can be updated and converted into a <strong>regular individual Demat and trading account<\/strong>, allowing full access to trading and investing features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht_kb_category":[2813],"ht_kb_tag":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/25041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/25041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25043,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/25041\/revisions\/25043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_category?post=25041"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_tag?post=25041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}