F&O total turnover stood at Rs 3,28,746.15 crore on April 21

Futures & Options (F&O) total turnover stood at 3,28,746.15 crore on April 21 and the total number of contracts traded on the day were 58,56,471.                     

Of the total turnover, Index Futures contributed Rs 18,053.26 crore, Stock Futures Rs 34,869.54 crore and Index Options Rs 2,52,835.98 crore, while the contribution of the Stock Options was of Rs 22,987.36 crore.        

For the day, the total F&O PutCall ratio stood 1.02 while Index Options PutCall ratio was 1.10 and that of Stock Options was 0.49.     

The top five scrips with highest PCR on OI were Bajaj Finance (3.00), Castrol India (2.10), Tata Steel (1.62), Hindalco (1.26) and United Breweries (1.26). 

Among most active underlying, State Bank of India witnessed a contraction of 3.28 million of Open Interest in the March month futures contract, followed by ICICI Bank witnessing an addition of 0.91 million of Open Interest in the March month contract; Tata Steel witnessed a contraction of 2.07 million of Open Interest in the March month contract, IndusInd Bank witnessed an addition of 0.21 million of Open Interest in the March month contract and Infosys witnessed an contraction of 0.36 million units of Open Interest in the March month's future contract.