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Investro sits among the investing platforms on this site, and it does not belong there. You are not buying stocks. You are paying an entry fee to compete against other users for a share of their entry fees.

Investro asks you to build a virtual basket of stocks from NIFTY50 or DOW30 that you expect to rise or fall, and scores you against other users on the real performance of those stocks. It describes itself as a Game of Skill. It runs cash contests, each with its own size, entry fee and prize money, and our record noted a minimum deposit of ₹100.

The first thing to be clear about is that this is not investing, and the resemblance is superficial in a way that matters. When you buy a share, your return comes from the company — its earnings, its dividends, its valuation — and it does not depend on anybody else being wrong. If every investor in India buys the same good company and it does well, everyone gains. In a contest, the prize pool is assembled from entry fees. Your gain is funded by other participants' losses, minus the platform's cut. Those are opposite structures wearing similar vocabulary, and the vocabulary is doing the work: "portfolio", "basket", "stocks".

That distinction also determines the legal position. India's Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025 defines an online money game in section 2 as one played by paying fees, or depositing money or other stakes, with the expectation of winning monetary or other enrichment — and it applies irrespective of whether the game is based on skill, chance, or both. A contest with an entry fee and a prize pool meets that definition. The "Game of Skill" description is not a defence; it is the specific argument the statute was drafted to discard, because it was the legal foundation the Indian real-money gaming industry had been built on.

The Act's architecture is set out at length on our pages for RummyCircle, A23 and Sixer Game: section 5 prohibits offering such a game, section 6 prohibits advertising one, section 7 prohibits facilitating the payments, offences under sections 5 and 7 are cognizable and non-bailable, and section 9(2) carries up to two years' imprisonment or a fine up to ₹50 lakh, or both. The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Rules, 2026 have been in force since 1 May 2026, with the Online Gaming Authority of India empowered to classify a game by its entry fees, staking mechanism, expectation of winnings and revenue model.

It is worth noting how well-established this outcome is for stock-flavoured products specifically. Apps that framed staking on market or event outcomes as trading — Probo, TradeX, MarketWolf, GyanApp — were classified as online money games and banned. Probo shut its real-money business, and over ₹400 crore of assets connected to the platform were frozen or attached during 2025 Enforcement Directorate investigations. Financial vocabulary has been tested against this statute and it did not help.

If what you actually want is exposure to NIFTY50, that is available through any SEBI-registered broker, with a demat account, real ownership, dividends and no entry fee funding someone else's prize.