Your Guide To FII Positions For March 26 Trade

Foreign portfolio investors remained net buyers for the fourth straight session on Tuesday. They remained buyers of index futures, index options, and stock futures. They turned into sellers of stock options.

Foreign portfolio investors bought equities worth Rs 5,371.57 crore. Domestic institutional investors turned net sellers of Indian equities after a session of buying, offloading equities worth Rs 2,768.87 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 919.76 crore and index options for approximately Rs 25,766.06 crore, and stock futures worth Rs 1,843.22 crore. They were sellers of stock options worth Rs 911.62 crore.

The value of the total Nifty 50 futures open interest in the market decreased by Rs 3,022.4 crore at the end of the March expiry from Rs 30,635.3 crore a day earlier to Rs 27,612.9 crore.

The Nifty March futures were down 0.14% to 23,705.35 at a premium of 36.7 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 23,000 put strikes had the maximum open interest.

The total long-short ratio for foreign investors rose to 1.34 from 1.32.