Your Guide To FII Positions For March 11 Trade
Foreign investors were net sellers of index futures and options, and stock futures and options on Monday.
Foreign portfolio investors continued to remain net sellers of Indian equities for the 13th straight session on Monday, while also staying net sellers of index futures, stock futures and options. They were net buyers of index options.
Cash Market
Foreign portfolio investors continued to remain net sellers of Indian equities for the 13th straight session on Monday as they net offloaded stocks worth Rs 485 crore.
Domestic institutional investors stayed net buyers for the 23rd straight session as they net bought equities worth Rs 263.51 crore, according to provisional data from the National Stock Exchange.
Futures And Options
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 18:82.
FIIs were net sellers of index futures worth Rs 501.72 crore, and stock futures and options worth Rs 1,303.99 crore and Rs 225.31 crore respectively. They were net buyers of index options worth Rs Rs 6,245.61 crore.
FII Contract Value
The value of the total Nifty 50 futures open interest in the market decreased Rs 1,091.87 crore at the end of March expiry from Rs 40,893.40 crore a day earlier to Rs 39,801.53 crore.
F&O Cues
The Nifty March futures were down 0.63% to 22,515.65 at a premium of 55.35 points, with the open interest down 2.09%.
The open interest distribution for the Nifty 50 March 13 expiry series indicated most activity at 23,000 call strikes, and the 22,000 put strikes had the maximum open interest.
Long-Short Ratio
The total long-short ratio for foreign investors fell to 1.42 from 1.44 earlier.
