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Positions by participant

Open contracts in NSE’s equity derivatives at the end of each day, split by who holds them: foreign institutions, domestic institutions, clients (mostly individuals) and brokers trading on their own account. Each contract has a buyer and a seller, so the four groups’ longs and shorts add up to the same total.

Index futures

ParticipantLongShortNetNet change
Foreign institutions (FII/FPI)48,6561,49,072−1,00,416+37,022
Domestic institutions (DII)54,00418,468+35,536−9,590
Clients (retail and others)1,80,82897,047+83,781−20,860
Proprietary traders29,55148,452−18,901−6,572

Of foreign institutions’ open index futures, 25% are long and 75% short.

Index calls

ParticipantLongShortNetNet change
Foreign institutions (FII/FPI)8,61,2769,88,900−1,27,624+26,124
Domestic institutions (DII)10,818553+10,265+2,335
Clients (retail and others)29,06,18628,94,792+11,394−79,511
Proprietary traders11,41,85910,35,893+1,05,966+51,052

Of foreign institutions’ open index calls, 47% are long and 53% short.

Index puts

ParticipantLongShortNetNet change
Foreign institutions (FII/FPI)13,79,2169,29,475+4,49,741+23,656
Domestic institutions (DII)1,04,9501,003+1,03,947+136
Clients (retail and others)40,70,03644,74,207−4,04,171+22,877
Proprietary traders15,29,74016,79,258−1,49,518−46,669

Of foreign institutions’ open index puts, 60% are long and 40% short.

Stock futures

ParticipantLongShortNetNet change
Foreign institutions (FII/FPI)36,05,43425,26,231+10,79,203−8,147
Domestic institutions (DII)3,30,04943,93,321−40,63,272+30,325
Clients (retail and others)31,39,9173,20,512+28,19,405−15,607
Proprietary traders6,84,6475,19,983+1,64,664−6,571

Of foreign institutions’ open stock futures, 59% are long and 41% short.

How to read this

NSE splits open positions into four groups: clients (individuals and companies), DII, FII and proprietary traders (brokers trading their own money).

Long means a bought position and short a sold or written one. Many positions are hedges for other holdings, so a group’s net position is not a view on the market.

More in Options basics.

Source: NSE participant-wise open interest for 6 November 2026; changes against 5 November 2026. Number of contracts, end of day. A call or put held long is a bought option; short is a written (sold) one. These are positions, not forecasts, and they include hedges.

Information only, not advice to trade. Futures and options are high-risk: SEBI’s study of FY2022 to FY2024 found that about 9 in 10 individual traders in equity F&O made a net loss.