Your Guide To FII Positions For March 17 Trade
Foreign portfolio investors extended their selling streak in Indian equities for the 16th consecutive session on Thursday. They offloaded index futures and options, as well as stock futures and options.
FIIs In Cash Market
Foreign portfolio investors remained net sellers of Indian equities for the 16th straight session on Friday as they net offloaded stocks worth Rs 792.90 crore.
Domestic institutional investors, on the other hand, stayed net buyers for the 26th straight session as they net bought equities worth Rs 1,723.82 crore, according to provisional data from the National Stock Exchange.
FIIs In Futures And Options
Ahead of the March 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 18:82.
FIIs were net sellers of index futures and options worth Rs 144.04 crore and Rs 75,274.1 crore, respectively. They sold stock futures worth Rs 2,006.53 crore and stock options worth Rs 1,347.47 crore.
FII Contract Value
The value of the total Nifty 50 futures open interest in the market increased by Rs 84.88 crore at the end of the March expiry from Rs 39,338.32 crore a day earlier to Rs 39,423.2 crore.
F&O Cues
The Nifty March futures were down 0.41% to 22,444.25 at a premium of 47.05 points, with the open interest up 0.60%.
The open interest distribution for the Nifty 50 March 13 expiry series indicated most activity at 22,400 call strikes, and the 22,400 put strikes had the maximum open interest.
Long-Short Ratio
The total long-short ratio for foreign investors fell to 1.37 from 1.39 earlier.
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