Your Guide To FII Positions For March 5 Trade

Foreign portfolio investors continued to remain net sellers of Indian equities for the ninth straight session on Tuesday. They remained net buyers and sellers of stock futures and options, respectively, whereas they turned sellers of index futures and buyers of index options.

FPIs net offloaded stocks worth approximately Rs 3,405.8 crore on Tuesday. On the other hand, domestic institutional investors stayed net buyers for the 19th straight session as they mopped up equities worth Rs 4,851.4 crore, according to provisional data from the National Stock Exchange.

In the previous day, the FPIs had offloaded equities worth Rs 4,665.8 crore.

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 16:84.

The FIIs sold index futures worth Rs 36.95 crore and stock options worth Rs 844.53 crore. They bought index options and stock futures worth Rs 26,048.9 crore and Rs 2,763.25 crore, respectively.

The value of the total Nifty 50 futures open interest in the market increased by Rs  429.48 crore at the end of March expiry from Rs 39,955.45 crore a day earlier to Rs 40,384.93 crore.

The Nifty March futures were down 0.34% to 22,191.05 at a premium of  108.4 points, with the open interest up 1.39%.

The open interest distribution for the Nifty 50 March 6 expiry series indicated most activity at 22,500 call strikes, and the 21,500 put strikes having the maximum open interest.

The total long-short ratio for foreign investors rose to 1.42 from 1.38 earlier.