Your Guide To FII Positions For March 12 Trade

Foreign portfolio investors continued to remain net sellers of Indian equities for the 14th straight session on Tuesday, while also staying net sellers of stock options. They were net buyers of index options, index futures, and stock futures.

Foreign portfolio investors continued to remain net sellers of Indian equities for the 14th straight session on Monday as they net offloaded stocks worth Rs 2,823 crore.

Domestic institutional investors stayed net buyers for the 24th straight session as they net bought equities worth Rs 2,001 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 18:82.

FIIs were net buyers of index futures worth Rs 80.17 crore, stock futures worth Rs 621 crore, and index options worth Rs 20,229 crore. They were net sellers of stock options worth Rs 439 crore.

The value of the total Nifty 50 futures open interest in the market decreased by Rs 133 crore at the end of the March expiry from Rs 39,801 crore a day earlier to Rs 39,668 crore.

The Nifty March futures were up 0.33% to 22,564 at a premium of 67 points, with the open interest down 0.55%.

The open interest distribution for the Nifty 50 March 13 expiry series indicated most activity at 23,000 call strikes, and the 22,200 put strikes had the maximum open interest.

The total long-short ratio for foreign investors remains flat at 1.43 from 1.42 earlier.