Your Guide To FII Positions For Jan. 28 Trade

Foreign portfolio investors stayed net sellers of Indian equities for the 17th straight session on Monday. They were also net sellers of index futures and remained buyers of index options, stock options and futures.

Foreign portfolio investors stayed net sellers of Indian equities for the 17th straight session on Monday as they sold stocks worth Rs 5,015.5 crore.

The domestic institutional investors were net buyers for the 28th consecutive session as they mopped up equities worth Rs 6,642.2 crore, according to provisional data from the National Stock Exchange.

So far in January, the FPIs have sold equities worth Rs 67,022 crore, according to the National Securities Depository Ltd.

Ahead of the Jan. 30 expiry, the value of outstanding positions—also called open interest in the derivatives segment—has increased for the FIIs in the Nifty futures. The FIIs' long-to-short ratio in index futures remains at 22%:78%.

The FIIs sold index futures worth Rs 34.31 crore and bought options worth Rs 1,364.53 crore. They also bought stock options worth Rs 665.41 crore and futures worth Rs 2,950.83 crore.

The value of the total Nifty 50 futures open interest in the market decreased by Rs 3,565.05 crore at the end of January expiry from Rs 30,533.34 crore a day earlier to Rs 26,968.29 crore.

The Nifty January futures were down by 1.22% to 22,831.65 at a premium of 2.5 points, with the open interest down by 10.64%.

The open interest distribution for the Nifty 50 Jan. 30 expiry series indicated most activity at 24,000 call strikes, with the 22,000 put strikes having maximum open interest.

Securities in F&O ban period include IndiaMart InterMesh, Manappuram Finance, Mahanagar Gas, and Punjab National Bank.

The total long-short ratio for foreign investors rose to 1.15 from 1.12 in the previous session.