Your Guide To FII Positions For April 4 Trade
Foreign portfolio investors stayed net sellers for the fourth straight day on Thursday. They were sellers of index futures and options and stock futures and options.
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Foreign portfolio investors stayed net sellers for the fourth straight day on Thursday as they offloaded equities worth Rs 2,806 crore, according to provisional data from the National Stock Exchange.
Domestic institutional investors remained net buyers for the fifth consecutive session as they mopped up equities worth Rs 221.5 crore.
FIIs In Futures And Options
Ahead of the April 24 expiry, the value of outstanding positions — also called open interest in the derivatives segment — has increased for the foreign institutional investors in the Nifty futures. The FIIs' long-to-short ratio in index futures remains at 30:70.
The FIIs were sellers of index futures and options worth Rs 1,910.42 crore and Rs 18,057.5 crore, respectively. They also sold stock futures and options worth Rs 2,529.83 crore and Rs 2,164.38 crore, respectively.
FII Contract Value
The value of the total Nifty 50 futures open interest in the market increased by Rs 854.4 crore at the end of the April expiry from Rs 29,544.67 crore a day earlier to Rs 30399.07 crore.
F&O Cues
The Nifty April futures fell 0.48% to 23,325.95 at a premium of 75.85 points, with the open interest up 3.39%.
The open interest distribution for the Nifty 50 April 9 expiry series indicated the most activity at 23,000 call strikes, and the 25,400 put strikes had the maximum open interest.
Long-Short Ratio
The total long-short ratio for foreign investors rose to 1.48 from 1.34.
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