Your Guide To FII Positions For March 25 Trade

Foreign portfolio investors remained net buyers for the third straight session on Monday as they bought equities worth Rs 3,055.8 crore. They remained buyers of index futures and stock futures and options, and sellers of index options.

The FPIs bought equities worth Rs 3,055.76 crore. Domestic institutional investors turned net buyers of Indian equities after two days, mopping up equities worth Rs 98.5 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 increased for the foreign institutional investors in the Nifty futures. The FIIs' long-to-short ratio in index futures remains at 32:68.

The FIIs were buyers of index futures for approximately Rs 341 crore and stock futures for approximately Rs 942 crore, and stock options worth Rs 1,831.1 crore. They were sellers of index options worth Rs 19,312.6 crore.

The value of the total Nifty 50 futures open interest in the market decreased Rs 5,126.8 crore at the end of the March expiry from Rs 35,762.1 crore a day earlier to Rs 30,635.3 crore.

The Nifty March futures were up 1.45% to 23,699.35 at a premium of 41 points, with the open interest down 9.94%.

The open interest distribution for the Nifty 50 March 27 expiry series indicated the most activity at 25,000 call strikes, and the 22,500 put strikes had the maximum open interest.

The total long-short ratio for foreign investors fell to 1.32 from 1.40.