Your Guide To FII Positions For Dec. 6 Trade
The FIIs bought index futures worth Rs 2,411 crore, index options worth Rs 78,837 crore, and stock futures worth Rs 4,318 crore. However, they sold stock options worth Rs 825 crore.
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Foreign institutional investors bought in the cash market on Thursday. They remained net buyers in index options, stock futures and index futures. However, FIIs were net sellers in stock options.
FIIs In Cash Market
Overseas investors stayed net buyers of Indian equities for the third consecutive session on Thursday, while the domestic institutional investors stayed net sellers for a third day.
Foreign portfolio investors mopped up stocks worth Rs 8,539.91 crore, the highest amount bought by FPIs so far this month, and domestic institutional investors sold shares worth Rs 2,303.64 crore, according to provisional data shared by the National Stock Exchange.
In November, FPIs sold stocks worth Rs 45,974.1 crore, whereas the DIIs mopped up stocks worth Rs 44,483.9 crore. In October, the FPIs had sold equities worth Rs 1.14 lakh crore and the DIIs bought equities worth Rs 1.07 lakh crore.
In December so far, FIIs have mopped up Rs 13,763.90 crore worth of equities, whereas DIIs purchased Rs 133.41 crore worth of equities.
In the last five sessions, FPIs bought Rs 9,380.35 crore worth of equities, while DIIs bought 5,856.75 crore worth of equities in the same period.
FIIs In Futures And Options
Ahead of the Dec. 24 expiry, the value of outstanding positions—also called open interest in the derivatives segment—has increased for the FIIs in Nifty futures.
The FIIs' long-to-short ratio in index futures remains at 44%:56%.
The FIIs bought index futures worth Rs 2,411 crore, index options worth Rs 78,837 crore, and stock futures worth Rs 4,318 crore. However, they sold stock options worth Rs 825 crore.
F&O Cues
The Nifty November futures were up by 0.87% to 24,775 at a premium of 67 points, with the open interest down by 3.2%.
The open interest distribution for the Nifty 50 Dec. 12 expiry series indicated most activity at 26,000 call strikes, with the 21,600 put strikes having maximum open interest.
FII Contract Value
The value of total Nifty 50 futures open interest in the market decreased by Rs 699 crore at the end of November expiry—from Rs 28,371 crore a day earlier—to Rs 27,672 crore.
Long-Short Ratio
The total long-short ratio for foreign investors fell to 1.37 from 1.42 in the earlier session.
