Futures & Options (F&O) total turnover stood at Rs 6,53,812.34 crore on March 16 and the total number of contracts traded on the day were 81,16,324.
Of the total turnover, Index Futures contributed Rs 12,487.75 crore, Stock Futures Rs 48,643.33 crore and Index Options Rs 5,61,862.19 crore, while the contribution of the Stock Options was of Rs 30,819.07 crore.
For the day, the total F&O Put Call ratio stood 0.85, while Index Options Put Call ratio was 0.89 and that of Stock Options was 0.44.
The top five scrips with highest PCR on OI were Colgate-Palmolive (India) (2.32), YES Bank (1.22), Maruti Suzuki India (1.16), NIIT Technologies (1.05) and Jindal Steel & Power (1.05).
Among most active underlying Reliance Capital witnessed an addition of 1.80 million units of Open Interest in the March month futures contract, followed by Tata Steel witnessing a contraction of 0.50 million units of Open Interest in the March month contract, State Bank of India witnessed an addition of 0.24 million units of Open Interest in the March month contract, Reliance Industries witnessed a contraction of 0.01 million units of Open Interest in the March month future contract and Vedanta witnessed a contraction of 3.48 million units of Open Interest in the March month future contract.