Your Guide To FII Positions For Dec. 31 Trade

Foreign institutional investors continued their selling streak in the cash market for the tenth consecutive session on Monday. They turned net sellers in index futures, while they were net buyers in the stock options, index options, and stock futures.

Overseas investors have been net sellers for ten consecutive sessions and have collectively offloaded stocks worth Rs 24,044.15 crore. On the other hand, domestic institutional investors stayed net buyers for the ninth straight session.

The foreign portfolio investors offloaded stocks worth approximately Rs 1,893.16 crore on Monday, according to provisional data from the National Stock Exchange. The DIIs bought stocks worth Rs 2,173.86 crore.

The FPIs have offloaded Rs 6,322.88 crore last week, while the domestic institutional investors have bought shares worth Rs 10,927.73 crore.

In December, so far, FPIs have offloaded stakes worth Rs 12,337.26 crore, while DIIs have bought stakes worth Rs 29,648 crore. In November the foreign investors sold shares worth Rs 45,974.12 crore, whereas the domestic institutional investors bought stakes worth Rs 44,483.86 crore.

The FPIs have been net sellers of Rs 2.98 lakh crore worth of Indian equities so far this calendar year, according to provisional data from the National Stock Exchange compiled by NDTV Profit. While the DIIs have bought shares worth Rs 5.26 lakh crore.

However, according to data from the National Securities Depository Ltd., which is updated till the previous trading day, foreign institutions have been net buyers of Rs 2,026 crore worth of Indian equities so far in 2024.

The benchmark equity indices eroded early gains in the last leg of the trade to end lower on Monday. Broad-based weakness across Asia and Europe also put pressure on the indices.

Ahead of the Jan. 25 expiry, the value of outstanding positions—also called open interest in the derivatives segment—has increased for the FIIs in the Nifty futures. The FIIs' long-to-short ratio in index futures remains at 14%:86%.

The FIIs sold index futures worth Rs 1,427 crore, while they bought index options worth Rs 46,983 crore, stock futures worth Rs 1,913 crore, and stock options worth Rs 1,131 crore.

The value of the total Nifty 50 futures open interest in the market increased by Rs 1,409 crore at the end of January expiry from Rs 28,060 crore a day earlier to Rs 29,469 crore.

The Nifty January futures were down by 0.69% to 23,828 at a premium of 184 points, with the open interest up by 5.8%.

The open interest distribution for the Nifty 50 Jan. 2 expiry series indicated most activity at 25,000 call strikes, with the 21,600 put strikes having maximum open interest.

The total long-short ratio for foreign investors remained at 1.37 from 1.33 in the previous session.