Oquilia Markets Lab

Market X-Ray, 6 November 2026

Name: Oquilia Market X-Ray, 6 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 Friday, 6 November 2026.

COROMANDEL -4.59% · OI +70.7%NAVINFLUOR +2.47% · OI +37.5%DATAPATTNS -3.13% · OI +20.5%SYRMA -3.63% · OI +19.3%ASTRAL -9.89% · OI +16.2%KARURVYSYA +2.10% · OI +14.7%BRITANNIA -4.98% · OI +13.4%HINDALCO +1.49% · OI +11.8%KALYANKJIL +5.16% · OI -11.6%BOSCHLTD -3.41% · OI +8.0%CUMMINSIND -0.85% · OI +7.9%DIVISLAB +1.65% · OI +7.3%GVT&D -2.14% · OI +7.0%HAVELLS +5.13% · OI -7.0%DABUR -1.84% · OI +6.7%BAJAJ-AUTO +1.96% · OI -6.6%

NSE close · 6 Nov

Updates after 7.15 pm on trading days

Foreign investors were net short 1,00,416 index futures contracts, against 1,37,438 short on 5 Nov.
Of 218 F&O stocks, 27 saw long unwinding, 39 short build-up, 50 short covering and 46 long build-up.
Nifty options expiring 9 Nov: put-call ratio 1.65; the most call open interest is at 26,000 and the most put open interest at 24,000.
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; +37,022 on the day

25% long75% short

Index options, net: calls −1,27,624, puts +4,49,741

Domestic institutions (DII)

net index futures; −9,590 on the day

75% long25% short

Index options, net: calls +10,265, puts +1,03,947

Brokers' own trading (Pro)

net index futures; −6,572 on the day

38% long62% short

Index options, net: calls +1,05,966, puts −1,49,518

Clients (retail and others)

net index futures; −20,860 on the day

65% long35% short

Index options, net: calls +11,394, puts −4,04,171

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 9 Nov · close 25,030Puts to the left, calls to the rightput-call ratio

25,650
25,600
25,550
25,500
25,450
25,400
25,350
25,300
25,250
25,200
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

Most call open interest: 26,000 (1,14,10,100). Most put open interest: 24,000 (1,42,63,470). Boxed: the strike nearest the close.

BANKNIFTYexpiry 23 Nov · close 59,086Puts to the left, calls to the rightput-call ratio

60,300
60,200
60,100
60,000
59,900
59,800
59,700
59,600
59,500
59,400
59,300
59,200
59,100
59,000
58,900
58,800
58,700
58,600
58,500
58,400
58,300
58,200
58,100
58,000
57,900

Most call open interest: 58,000 (20,65,920). Most put open interest: 58,000 (18,58,140). 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%.

BANDHANBNK88.5%
AMBUJACEM86.9%
MANAPPURAM85.5%
KAYNESIn ban
SAIL82.8%
INOXWIND81.4%
IDEA78.6%
LICHSGFIN78.2%
LICI72.0%
NBCC71.1%
CROMPTON70.4%
NMDC70.3%
CANBK68.2%
GLENMARK61.0%
PREMIERENE60.9%

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
MARICO	67.1%	+1.13%	262
ICICIBANK	66.8%	+4.75%	6,197
RELIANCE	66.8%	+0.50%	2,987
KOTAKBANK	65.5%	+2.78%	1,152
SBILIFE	64.4%	+2.82%	257
ICICILIFE	63.8%	+2.63%	134
BAJAJ-AUTO	63.5%	+1.32%	631
NESTLEIND	63.5%	+1.89%	223
IOC	63.4%	+1.21%	335
GMRAIRPORT	63.3%	-0.55%	193
HDFCBANK	63.2%	+3.72%	5,690
POWERGRID	63.0%	-0.48%	463
MARUTI	62.6%	+0.77%	1,171
TATACONSUM	62.6%	+0.80%	149
BHARTIARTL	62.4%	+2.45%	3,567

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.