Oquilia Markets Lab

Market X-Ray, 16 October 2026

Name: Oquilia Market X-Ray, 16 October 2026: end-of-day positions in India's equity derivatives market
Creator: Oquilia Markets Lab

Who is positioned how in India’s futures and options market, read from NSE’s own end-of-day files and explained. Free, every trading evening. This is Friday, 16 October 2026.

UJJIVANSFB -3.28% · OI +19.0%LTF -4.33% · OI +15.9%ENRIN -2.15% · OI +14.3%ANGELONE -4.52% · OI +12.4%PERSISTENT -1.57% · OI +11.2%WIPRO +6.45% · OI +9.8%IRFC +1.74% · OI +7.2%ZYDUSLIFE -1.47% · OI +6.5%PIIND -0.86% · OI +6.3%TECHM +8.17% · OI -6.2%DIXON -3.06% · OI +5.8%TATAELXSI +3.81% · OI +5.8%MCX -1.69% · OI +5.8%WAAREEENER +1.26% · OI +5.2%360ONE -0.85% · OI +5.1%KPITTECH +5.26% · OI -5.1%

NSE close · 16 Oct

Updates after 7.15 pm on trading days

Foreign investors were net short 2,72,999 index futures contracts, against 2,79,827 short on 15 Oct.
Of 213 F&O stocks, 15 saw long unwinding, 70 short build-up, 24 short covering and 40 long build-up.
Nifty options expiring 19 Oct: put-call ratio 1.32; the most call open interest is at 24,000 and the most put open interest at 22,000.
3 stocks are in the F&O ban: SAIL, KAYNES, AMBUJACEM.

Positioning

Who is positioned how

Index futures held by each kind of trader at the close, in contracts: long minus short. The line is the last 16 sessions.

Foreign investors (FII)

net index futures; +6,828 on the day

11% long89% short

Index options, net: calls −2,73,675, puts +5,21,237

Domestic institutions (DII)

net index futures; +752 on the day

78% long22% short

Index options, net: calls +8,675, puts +89,881

Brokers' own trading (Pro)

net index futures; −8,182 on the day

60% long40% short

Index options, net: calls +2,08,475, puts −1,19,631

Clients (retail and others)

net index futures; +602 on the day

83% long17% short

Index options, net: calls +56,525, puts −4,91,486

Build-up

Every F&O stock, at a glance

Each tile is a stock's futures: the price change on the day and the change in open interest across all expiries. Together they say whether positions were being opened or closed. Tap a colour to filter, a tile for its numbers.

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213/213 stocks

Tap a tile for its numbers.

Options

Where the option positions are

NIFTYexpiry 19 Oct · close 23,146Puts to the left, calls to the rightput-call ratio

23,750
23,700
23,650
23,600
23,550
23,500
23,450
23,400
23,350
23,300
23,250
23,200
23,150
23,100
23,050
23,000
22,950
22,900
22,850
22,800
22,750
22,700
22,650
22,600
22,550

Most call open interest: 24,000 (1,41,06,820). Most put open interest: 22,000 (1,82,69,940). Boxed: the strike nearest the close.

BANKNIFTYexpiry 27 Oct · close 55,844Puts to the left, calls to the rightput-call ratio

57,000
56,900
56,800
56,700
56,600
56,500
56,400
56,300
56,200
56,100
56,000
55,900
55,800
55,700
55,600
55,500
55,400
55,300
55,200
55,100
55,000
54,900
54,800
54,700
54,600

Most call open interest: 56,000 (12,15,780). Most put open interest: 55,000 (13,54,800). Boxed: the strike nearest the close.

Position limits

Close to the F&O ban

Open interest as a share of each stock’s market-wide position limit. Above 95% NSE bans fresh positions; the ban lifts when it falls below 80%.

SAILIn ban
KAYNESIn ban
AMBUJACEMIn ban
CROMPTON88.1%
INOXWIND86.9%
LICHSGFIN86.8%
MANAPPURAM85.0%
BANDHANBNK81.8%
IDEA81.5%
LICI77.3%
APLAPOLLO75.8%
CANBK75.1%
PATANJALI75.1%
NMDC73.3%
GLENMARK69.6%

Delivery

Where buyers took delivery

F&O stocks with the highest share of shares traded that were taken into demat accounts rather than squared off the same day (turnover above Rs 100 crore).

Stock	Delivery	Price	Rs cr
NHPC	87.5%	-1.73%	140
PAGEIND	82.5%	-0.97%	109
BHARTIARTL	80.6%	+2.75%	4,826
ICICIPRULI	74.1%	-0.89%	174
ONGC	73.3%	-1.18%	245
AXISBANK	70.8%	+0.16%	1,127
KOTAKBANK	70.5%	-0.12%	1,126
SBILIFE	70.3%	-0.30%	446
APOLLOHOSP	69.8%	+0.01%	430
BHARATFORG	69.1%	-0.94%	273
PFC	68.8%	-2.64%	595
ICICIBANK	68.7%	+0.55%	2,076
WAAREEENER	68.7%	+2.86%	303
NTPC	67.3%	+0.16%	306
ASIANPAINT	67.2%	-0.77%	236

How to read the X-Ray

Long build-up: price up, open interest up. New positions are being opened by buyers.
Short build-up: price down, open interest up. New positions are being opened by sellers.
Short covering: price up, open interest down. Sellers are closing positions.
Long unwinding: price down, open interest down. Buyers are closing positions.
Put-call ratio: open interest in puts divided by open interest in calls, across every strike of the expiry.
Participants: NSE splits open interest four ways: foreign portfolio investors (FII), domestic institutions such as mutual funds and insurers (DII), brokers trading on their own account (Pro), and everyone else (clients, mostly individuals).

Where the numbers come from

Every figure on this page is calculated from NSE’s public archive files for the session, published each evening: NSE participant-wise open interest, NSE F&O bhavcopy, NSE combined open interest and MWPL, NSE equity bhavcopy with delivery. The X-Ray updates after 7.15 pm on trading days.

What this is not

It is a reading of the exchange’s data, not advice: Oquilia is not a SEBI-registered adviser and says nothing here about what anyone should buy or sell. Positions change through the day and these are the closing figures. SEBI’s own studies found that most individual traders in equity derivatives lose money; see what a trade really costs in the True Cost Calculator.