What is the tax slab for a person if intraday trading in equities is the only source of income for him? I am only talking about daily intraday trading, and not delivery-based or long-term ones. Rahul Arora , Energy and Currency Trader (2018-present) Answered 10h ago Any profits or losses from day trading are called Speculative; either Speculative Profits or Speculative Losses. A person doing intraday trading is automatically considered as someone who is either an active trader or trading as a business. There is no special tax rate for speculative profits, it is considered as a business income and taxed as per any other business activity. In case of speculative losses, you can carry these forward for the next 4 years provided you have declared the same while filing your returns and net off only against any speculative profits over the next 4 years. So here is the tricky bit [Section 73(1) of the Income Tax Act, 1961], Speculative losse...