F&O total turnover stood at Rs 4,53,759.67 crore on March 29

Futures & Options (F&O) total turnover stood at 4,53,759.67 crore on March 29 and the total number of contracts traded on the day were 84,22,419.                     

Of the total turnover, Index Futures contributed Rs 26,977.75 crore, Stock Futures Rs 63,941.52 crore and Index Options Rs 3,41,863.71  crore, while the contribution of the Stock Options was of Rs 20,976.69 crore.        

For the day, the total F&O PutCall ratio stood 0.91 while Index Options PutCall ratio was 0.93 and that of Stock Options was 0.59.     

The top five scrips with highest PCR on OI were Indian Overseas Bank (2.71), United Breweries (2.45), Bata India (2.34), Ultratech Cement (1.69) and Cairn India (1.65). 

Among most active underlying, Lupin witnessed a contraction of 1.08 million of Open Interest in the March month futures contract, followed by State Bank of India  witnessing a contraction of 15.51 million of Open Interest in the March month contract; HDFC Bank witnessed a contraction of 8.69 million of Open Interest in the March month contract, Reliance Industries witnessed a contraction of 3.98 million of Open Interest in the March month contract and Ashok Leyland witnessed a contraction of 13.82 million units of Open Interest in the March month's future contract.