Oquilia Markets Lab

Market X-Ray, 5 November 2026

Name: Oquilia Market X-Ray, 5 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 Thursday, 5 November 2026.

DATAPATTNS -4.66% · OI +62.0%COROMANDEL +3.77% · OI +53.7%PIIND -19.23% · OI +40.0%KARURVYSYA +4.59% · OI +20.3%BHARATFORG -3.21% · OI +18.4%OIL -3.66% · OI +18.3%ASIANPAINT +4.34% · OI +15.6%SYRMA -0.48% · OI +15.4%SOLARINDS -5.16% · OI +11.2%SONACOMS +2.31% · OI +10.6%MOTILALOFS +8.09% · OI -9.5%SUNPHARMA +3.11% · OI +8.7%M&M +5.51% · OI -8.6%CUB +2.33% · OI +8.2%SBICARD +5.12% · OI -7.9%BSE +5.22% · OI -7.7%

NSE close · 5 Nov

Updates after 7.15 pm on trading days

Foreign investors were net short 1,37,438 index futures contracts, against 1,85,979 short on 4 Nov.
Of 218 F&O stocks, 15 saw long unwinding, 24 short build-up, 108 short covering and 39 long build-up.
Nifty options expiring 9 Nov: put-call ratio 1.34; the most call open interest is at 25,000 and the most put open interest at 23,000.
1 stock is in the F&O ban: KAYNES.

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; +48,541 on the day

22% long78% short

Index options, net: calls −1,53,748, puts +4,26,085

Domestic institutions (DII)

net index futures; +2,808 on the day

86% long14% short

Index options, net: calls +7,930, puts +1,03,811

Brokers' own trading (Pro)

net index futures; −6,197 on the day

41% long59% short

Index options, net: calls +54,914, puts −1,02,849

Clients (retail and others)

net index futures; −45,152 on the day

69% long31% short

Index options, net: calls +90,905, puts −4,27,048

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.

Find a stockOrder by

218/218 stocks

Tap a tile for its numbers.

Options

Where the option positions are

NIFTYexpiry 9 Nov · close 24,537Puts to the left, calls to the rightput-call ratio

25,150
25,100
25,050
25,000
24,950
24,900
24,850
24,800
24,750
24,700
24,650
24,600
24,550
24,500
24,450
24,400
24,350
24,300
24,250
24,200
24,150
24,100
24,050
24,000
23,950

Most call open interest: 25,000 (1,19,60,390). Most put open interest: 23,000 (1,27,67,625). Boxed: the strike nearest the close.

BANKNIFTYexpiry 23 Nov · close 57,774Puts to the left, calls to the rightput-call ratio

59,000
58,900
58,800
58,700
58,600
58,500
58,400
58,300
58,200
58,100
58,000
57,900
57,800
57,700
57,600
57,500
57,400
57,300
57,200
57,100
57,000
56,900
56,800
56,700
56,600

Most call open interest: 58,000 (22,49,250). Most put open interest: 58,000 (14,75,940). 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%.

BANDHANBNK87.4%
AMBUJACEM86.6%
KAYNESIn ban
MANAPPURAM84.5%
INOXWIND83.1%
LICHSGFIN80.1%
SAIL79.5%
IDEA78.9%
CROMPTON75.8%
LICI73.8%
NMDC70.2%
NBCC68.4%
CANBK66.9%
GLENMARK63.6%
APLAPOLLO60.6%

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
BAJFINANCE	73.1%	+7.65%	3,139
POWERGRID	72.0%	-0.34%	408
SHREECEM	71.5%	+2.98%	107
ICICIBANK	70.8%	+5.33%	5,677
INDHOTEL	70.6%	+3.06%	515
TORNTPHARM	69.1%	-0.60%	239
SBILIFE	66.0%	+1.45%	164
GAIL	65.7%	-0.12%	233
PETRONET	65.3%	+1.93%	125
MARICO	65.2%	-0.25%	266
EICHERMOT	65.1%	+3.95%	745
ULTRACEMCO	63.3%	+3.67%	634
HDFCBANK	63.2%	+3.16%	4,945
GRASIM	62.6%	+2.86%	437
VBL	62.6%	+3.06%	493

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.