Your Guide To FII Positions For Feb. 12 Trade

Foreign portfolio investors stayed net sellers of Indian equities for the fifth straight session on Tuesday. They remained sellers of index futures, stock futures and options, and buyers of index options.

Foreign portfolio investors stayed net sellers of Indian equities for the fifth straight session on Tuesday as they offloaded stocks worth approximately Rs 4,486 crore.

Domestic institutional investors stayed net buyers for the fifth straight session as they mopped up equities worth Rs 4,002 crore, according to provisional data from the National Stock Exchange.

The FPIs sold stocks worth Rs 2,302.4 crore on Monday. In February, the FPIs sold Rs 10,112 crore so far. So far in the year, the FPIs have sold equities worth Rs 88,139 crore. In January, the FPIs sold equities worth Rs 78,027 crore, according to the National Securities Depository Ltd.'s data.

Ahead of the Feb. 27 expiry, the value of outstanding positions — also called open interest in the derivatives segment — has decreased for foreign institutional investors in the Nifty futures. The FIIs' long-to-short ratio in index futures remains at 14:86%.

The FIIs sold index futures worth Rs 1,684 crore, stock futures worth Rs 786 crore and stock options worth Rs 1,723 crore. They bought index options worth Rs 3,958 crore.

The value of the total Nifty 50 futures open interest in the market decreased by Rs 199 crore at the end of February expiry from Rs 40,117 crore a day earlier to Rs 39,918 crore.

The Nifty February futures were down 1.3% to 23,153 at a premium of 82 points, with the open interest up by 0.82%.

The open interest distribution for the Nifty 50 Feb. 13 expiry series indicated most activity at 24,000 call strikes, with the 22,500 put strikes having maximum open interest.

The total long-short ratio for foreign investors fell to 1.19 from 1.21 in the previous session.