Your Guide To FII Positions For Feb. 28 Trade

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

Foreign portfolio investors continued to remain net sellers of Indian equities for the sixth straight session on Thursday as they net offloaded stocks worth approximately Rs 556.6 crore.

Domestic institutional investors stayed net buyers for the 16th straight session as they mopped up equities worth Rs 1,727.1 crore, according to provisional data from the National Stock Exchange.

Ahead of the March 27 expiry, the value of outstanding positions—also called open interest in the derivatives segment—has decreased for the foreign institutional investors in the Nifty futures. The FIIs' long-to-short ratio in index futures remains at 16:84.

The FIIs bought index futures worth Rs 953.4 crore and sold index options worth Rs 30,724.6 crore. They bought stock futures worth Rs 5,459.6 crore and sold stock options worth Rs 2,271.7 crore.

The value of the total Nifty 50 futures open interest in the market increased by Rs 10,301 crore at the end of March expiry from Rs 27,708 crore a day earlier to Rs 38,009.7 crore.

The Nifty March futures were down 0.25% to 22,683.65 at a premium of 138.6 points, with the open interest up 37.38%.

The open interest distribution for the Nifty 50 March 6 expiry series indicated most activity at 25,500 call strikes, and the 22,500 put strikes having the maximum open interest.

The total long-short ratio for foreign investors rose to 1.49 from 1.20 earlier.