Your Guide To FII Positions For Feb. 27 Trade

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

The FPIs continued to stay net sellers of Indian equities for the fifth straight session on Tuesday as they net sold stocks worth approximately Rs 3,529.1 crore.

Domestic institutional investors remain net buyers for the 15th straight session as they mopped up equities worth Rs 3,030.8 crore, according to provisional data from the National Stock Exchange.

Ahead of the Feb. 27 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 17:83.

The FIIs bought index futures worth Rs 107.5 crore and sold index options worth Rs 3,320.3 crore. They bought stock futures and options worth Rs 2,930.6 crore and Rs 2,430.2 crore respectively.

The value of the total Nifty 50 futures open interest in the market decreased by Rs 8,952.9 crore at the end of February expiry from Rs 26,367.8 crore a day earlier to Rs 17,414.9 crore.

The Nifty February futures were down 0.21% to 22,582.15 at a premium of 34.6 points, with the open interest down 33.86%.

The open interest distribution for the Nifty 50 Feb. 27 expiry series indicated most activity at 21,900 call strikes, and the 26,150 put strikes having the maximum open interest.

The total long-short ratio for foreign investors rose to 1.20 from 1.19 earlier.