Futures & Options (F&O) total turnover stood at Rs 10,46,898.95 crore on March 18 and the total number of contracts traded on the day were 1,55,93,726.
Of the total turnover, Index Futures contributed Rs 23,816.72 crore, Stock Futures Rs 50,366.05 crore and Index Options Rs 9,15,434.47 crore, while the contribution of the Stock Options was of Rs 57,281.71 crore.
For the day, the total F&O Put Call ratio stood 0.92, while Index Options Put Call ratio was 0.96 and that of Stock Options was 0.51.
The top five scrips with highest PCR on OI were Oracle Financial Services Software (2.00), Bajaj Finserv
(1.82), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (1.55), Larsen & Toubro (1.43) and UPL (1.39).
Among most active underlying, Reliance Industries witnessed an addition of 0.55 million units of Open Interest in the March month futures contract, followed by Axis Bank witnessing an addition of 0.76 million units of Open Interest in the March month contract, State Bank of India witnessed an addition of 2.79 million units of Open Interest in the March month contract, Maruti Suzuki India witnessed a contraction of 0.01 million units of Open Interest in the March month contract and ICICI Bank witnessed an addition of 1.54 million units of Open Interest in the March month future contract.