Future & Option (F&O) total turnover stood at Rs 1,30,280.64 crore on March 18 and the total numbers of contract traded on the day were 44,05,473.
Of the total turnover, Index Futures contributed Rs 7,454.88 crore, Stock Futures Rs 10,745.56 crore and Index Options Rs 1,04,286.47 crore while, the contribution of the Stock Options was of Rs 7,793.73 crore.
For the day, the total F&O PutCall ratio stood at 1.16 while Index Options PutCall ratio was 1.21 and that of Stock Options was 0.63.
The top five scrips with highest PCR on OI were Divis Lab 2.50, HDFC Bank 2.32, TCS 1.76, Asian Paints 1.64 and Sun Pharma 1.49.
Among most active underlying, Unitech witnessed an addition of 1.23 million of Open Interest in the March month futures contract followed by JP Associates which witnessed contraction of 0.06 million of Open Interest in the near month contract. Meanwhile, IFCI witnessed of contraction of 0.19 million in the March month futures. Also, RCOM witnessed contraction of 0.34 million in Open Interest in the March month contract. Finally, Hindalco witnessed a contraction of 1.83 million of Open Interest in the near month futures contract.
