NEPSE Blog — How Nepal’s Stock Market Actually Works

Plain-language posts on the Nepal Stock Exchange: trading hours and the pre-open session, reading the floorsheet, trading costs and capital gains tax, and portfolio WACC.

• NEPSE Trading Hours: Pre-Open Session, Continuous Trading and Settlement

  When the Nepal Stock Exchange opens and closes, how the 10:30 pre-open session sets the opening price, and what happens to your trade after the bell.

  4 min read

• How to Read the NEPSE Floorsheet

  The floorsheet lists every trade on the Nepal Stock Exchange with its buying and selling broker. Here is what each column means and what it can and cannot tell you.

  5 min read

• NEPSE Capital Gains Tax and Trading Costs Explained

  Broker commission brackets, the SEBON fee, DP charges and capital gains tax on Nepal Stock Exchange trades, and how they combine into your real breakeven price.

  5 min read

• How to Calculate WACC for a NEPSE Portfolio

  Weighted average cost of capital per holding is the number that decides your real profit. Here is how bonus shares, rights and repeat purchases change it.

  5 min read

• How NEPSE Share Auctions Work: Cut-Off Price, Bidding and Allotment

  Promoter shares and unclaimed rights are sold by sealed-bid auction, not on the floor. How bidding works, how the cut-off price is set, and when the auction is a trap.

  6 min read

• Right Shares in NEPSE: Book Closure, Applying, and Why You Sometimes Cannot

  How a rights issue works in Nepal — the ratio, the book closure cutoff, applying through MeroShare, what happens if you skip it, and the transfer mistake that blocks eligibility.

  6 min read

• Bonus Shares and Cash Dividends in NEPSE: Tax, Timing and Why Yours Are Late

  What a bonus share actually gives you, how cash and bonus dividends are taxed in Nepal, why bonus shares take months to reach your demat, and how the price adjusts.

  5 min read

• NEPSE Settlement Explained: T+2, EDIS, and When Your Money Actually Arrives

  Why the shares you bought are not sellable today, what EDIS is and when to do it, when a broker owes you sale proceeds, and what to do when the payout is late.

  5 min read

• How to Apply for an IPO in Nepal Through MeroShare

  The full ASBA flow, what the 10-unit minimum really means for your odds, when the blocked money is released, and how allotment and listing work.

  5 min read

• Demat, MeroShare and Old Share Certificates: Fixing a Messy NEPSE Holding

  Why a second demat account causes trouble, how to consolidate holdings, and how to dematerialise decades-old physical certificates — including inherited ones.

  5 min read