NSE
| Scrip Group | Category |
| EQ | Equity Shares Regular, Rolling Settlement, Intraday allowed |
| BE | Equity Shares excluded from EQ series and traded as Trade for Trade settlement, No intraday allowed, only delivery trades to take place |
| BT | Limited Physical Market, physical shares < 500, Odd lot market, for securities which are compulsory to be dematerialized, Trade for Trade Settlement |
| BL | Block Trading, Trading of EQ series shares in large quantity, min 5 lakh shares or min 5 crore rupees |
| IL | Inter Foreign Institutional Investors (inter FII) meant for only securities in which maximum FII ceiling limit is reached, limit usually ranges from 18% to 28%, Rolling Settlement, pre-arranged buyer and seller |
| IQ | Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFI) meant only for securities which are in caution list of foreign investment where FII limit > 8% of equity capital and up to the ceiling limit, Rolling Settlement, pre-arranged buyer and seller |
| MF | Mutual Funds which are listed in the exchange |
| DR | Indian Depository Receipts, Rolling Settlement |
| DE | Indian Depository Receipts, Trade for Trade Settlement |
| ME, DL, DT, BZ, IT | |
| E | Partly paid equity shares, Rolling Settlement |
| X | Partly paid equity shares, Trade for Settlement |
| P | Non-convertible preference shares, Rolling Settlement |
| O | Non-convertible preference shares, Trade for Trade Settlement |
| Q | Fully convertible preference shares, Rolling Settlement |
| F | Fully convertible preference shares, Trade for Trade Settlement |
| N, Y | Non-convertible debt instruments, Rolling settlement |
| U, M | Non-convertible debt instruments, Trade for Trade settlement |
| D | Fully convertible debt instruments, Rolling Settlement |
| S | Fully convertible debt instruments, Trade for Trade Settlement |
| W | Convertible warrants, Rolling settlement |
| K | Convertible warrants, Trade for Trade settlement |
| H1~N1 | Corporate Bonds |
BSE
BSE categorises the Equity segment into 'A', 'B', 'T' & 'Z' categories where:
- A group contains the list of the most popular stocks. Stocks that are actively traded.
- Z group consists of Equity stocks that are blacklisted for not following Exchange rules & regulations or has pending investor complaints or any such reason.
- T group consists of stocks that form part of the Trade to trade segment. Trade for Trade segment is a segment on which no intraday trading is allowed. All trades result in delivery.
- B category includes stocks that don't form part of any of the above Equity groups.
Additionally BSE also has the F group which denotes the Debt market segment.
- M/MT group consist of stocks forming part of BSE's SME (Small & Medium enterprise)
- G group consists of Government securities available for retail investors.
- I group consists of Interest rate underlying.
- E group consisting of Exchange Traded Funds