Your Guide To FII Positions For March 4 Trade

Foreign portfolio investors continued to remain net sellers of Indian equities for the eighth straight session on Monday. They turned buyers of index futures and remained sellers of index and stock options. They also remained buyers of stock futures.

Foreign portfolio investors continued to remain net sellers of Indian equities for the eighth straight session on Monday as they net offloaded stocks worth approximately Rs 4,788.3 crore.

Domestic institutional investors stayed net buyers for the 18th straight session as they mopped up equities worth Rs 8,790.7 crore, according to provisional data from the National Stock Exchange.

In the previous session, the FPIs had offloaded equities worth Rs 12,009.8 crore — the highest-ever selloff by the FPIs since Nov. 28.

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 15:85.

The FIIs bought index and stock futures worth Rs 146 crore and Rs 2,493.3 crore. They sold index and stock options worth Rs 1,523.6 crore and Rs 1,575.5 crore respectively.

The value of the total Nifty 50 futures open interest in the market increased by Rs 60.95 crore at the end of March expiry from Rs 39,894.5 crore a day earlier to Rs 39,955.45 crore.

The Nifty March futures were down 0.06% to 22,259.80 at a premium of 140.5 points, with the open interest up 0.24%.

The open interest distribution for the Nifty 50 March 6 expiry series indicated most activity at 23,000 call strikes, and the 20,800 put strikes having the maximum open interest.

The total long-short ratio for foreign investors slipped to 1.38 from 1.40 earlier.