Oquilia Markets Lab

Market X-Ray, 2 November 2026

Name: Oquilia Market X-Ray, 2 November 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 Monday, 2 November 2026.

KARURVYSYA -2.15% · OI +143.4%SYRMA -8.04% · OI +96.2%CUB -1.90% · OI +54.5%DATAPATTNS +1.87% · OI +31.1%POLICYBZR -7.47% · OI +13.8%COROMANDEL +2.78% · OI +12.0%DELHIVERY +4.49% · OI -10.1%LODHA -3.53% · OI +9.5%SUNPHARMA -1.08% · OI +8.6%MARICO +0.08% · OI +8.2%NAVINFLUOR -3.37% · OI +8.0%DIXON +12.18% · OI -7.4%OIL +3.00% · OI +7.2%JINDALSTEL +4.08% · OI +6.3%GODREJCP +0.70% · OI +5.6%UPL +1.27% · OI +5.6%

NSE close · 2 Nov

Updates after 7.15 pm on trading days

Foreign investors were net short 2,33,199 index futures contracts, against 2,40,753 short on 30 Oct.
Of 218 F&O stocks, 11 saw long unwinding, 17 short build-up, 82 short covering and 61 long build-up.
Nifty options expiring 3 Nov: put-call ratio 1.67; the most call open interest is at 24,000 and the most put open interest at 23,000.
2 stocks are in the F&O ban: KAYNES, SAIL.

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 20 sessions.

Foreign investors (FII)

net index futures; +7,554 on the day

11% long89% short

Index options, net: calls −2,04,245, puts +5,44,613

Domestic institutions (DII)

net index futures; +449 on the day

88% long12% short

Index options, net: calls +6,775, puts +1,13,343

Brokers' own trading (Pro)

net index futures; −465 on the day

63% long37% short

Index options, net: calls +2,33,841, puts −76,330

Clients (retail and others)

net index futures; −7,538 on the day

80% long20% short

Index options, net: calls −36,370, puts −5,81,626

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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218/218 stocks

Tap a tile for its numbers.

Options

Where the option positions are

NIFTYexpiry 3 Nov · close 23,441Puts to the left, calls to the rightput-call ratio

24,050
24,000
23,950
23,900
23,850
23,800
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

Most call open interest: 24,000 (1,24,49,840). Most put open interest: 23,000 (1,44,50,085). Boxed: the strike nearest the close.

BANKNIFTYexpiry 23 Nov · close 55,002Puts to the left, calls to the rightput-call ratio

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
54,500
54,400
54,300
54,200
54,100
54,000
53,900
53,800

Most call open interest: 57,000 (18,28,440). Most put open interest: 58,000 (13,37,790). 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%.

KAYNESIn ban
BANDHANBNK87.6%
MANAPPURAM86.9%
LICHSGFIN85.2%
SAILIn ban
AMBUJACEM83.1%
INOXWIND82.4%
IDEA78.5%
CROMPTON75.7%
LICI72.0%
NMDC71.0%
APLAPOLLO67.5%
CANBK66.4%
PATANJALI63.7%
GLENMARK61.9%

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
BHARTIARTL	71.8%	+0.82%	1,360
UNOMINDA	70.0%	+3.34%	144
KOTAKBANK	68.8%	-0.70%	975
INDHOTEL	68.6%	+1.34%	455
DRREDDY	66.5%	-0.74%	277
ICICIBANK	66.0%	-0.76%	1,253
AUBANK	65.6%	+3.01%	392
SBILIFE	65.3%	+0.11%	109
BAJFINANCE	65.1%	+2.16%	633
PERSISTENT	64.8%	+0.05%	508
SAGILITY	63.4%	+1.57%	128
ABCAPITAL	63.2%	+2.40%	309
LUPIN	62.6%	-0.72%	134
TIINDIA	62.5%	+2.78%	101
BPCL	62.4%	+2.86%	111

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.