Your Guide To FII Positions For April 7 Trade

Foreign portfolio investors stayed net sellers for the fifth straight day on Friday. They were sellers of index futures, stock futures and options. However, they were buyers in index options.

Foreign portfolio investors stayed net sellers for the fifth straight day on Friday as they offloaded equities worth Rs 3,484 crore, according to provisional data from the National Stock Exchange.

However, domestic institutional turned sellers after five buying sessions as they offloaded equities worth Rs 1,720.32 crore.

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 29:71.

The FIIs were sellers of index futures worth Rs 2,276 crore and stock futures and options worth Rs 3,763 crore and Rs 3,968 crore, respectively, while they bought index options worth Rs 31,103 crore.

The value of the total Nifty 50 futures open interest in the market increased by Rs 948 crore at the end of the April expiry from Rs 30,399 crore a day earlier to Rs 31,347 crore.

The Nifty April futures fell by 1.5% to 22,958 at a premium of 54 points, with the open interest up 4.77%.

The open interest distribution for the Nifty 50 April 9 expiry series indicated the most activity at 25,400 call strikes, and the 22,000 put strikes had the maximum open interest.

The total long-short ratio for foreign investors fell to 1.41 from 1.48.