FII DII data records what foreign and domestic institutions bought and sold in the last session. The cash-segment net figure is the headline: how much money foreign funds put into or took out of Indian shares, set against what domestic institutions did on the other side.
This page carries both, with the derivatives breakdown alongside, and keeps the history so a single day can be read against the weeks around it. One session in isolation is noise. A month of consistent direction is not.
The cash number is straightforward: shares bought or sold outright, money in or out. The derivatives numbers are harder to read, because an institution short index futures may be hedging a cash book rather than betting on a fall. A large foreign short in index futures alongside steady cash buying is a hedged position, not a bearish one, and the two lines have to be read together to tell the difference.
Provisional cash figures reach the exchanges shortly after the close and are usually out by early evening. Final figures follow the next morning and do move. The participant-wise derivatives report arrives on its own schedule. Every figure on this page carries the session it belongs to, so a provisional number is never shown as though it were settled.
The pattern worth watching is not a single day's net but who is absorbing whom. Sustained foreign selling met by domestic buying has repeatedly coincided with a market that held or rose, because the flow found a willing counterparty. The sessions that hurt are the ones where both sides sell.
One large number rarely means what it appears to. A single heavy foreign sell figure can be one fund rebalancing, an index reconstitution, or a block trade that had nothing to do with a view on the market. The same figure repeated for three weeks is a different object entirely.
That is why the history sits on the same page as the day. The useful question is not whether foreign investors sold today but whether today continues something or breaks it, and a single row cannot answer that.
None of this forecasts the next session. It is reported after the fact, it excludes proprietary and retail flow entirely, and provisional figures get revised. It is useful as context for positioning, and it is analytics rather than advice.
FII is a foreign institutional investor, a fund domiciled outside India investing in Indian markets. DII is a domestic institutional investor, mainly mutual funds, insurers and banks. The two groups often trade against each other, and the balance between them is read as a proxy for where large money is positioning.
The exchanges publish provisional cash-segment figures shortly after the close, usually by early evening, and the final numbers the following morning. The derivatives breakdown arrives with the daily participant-wise report. Provisional and final figures can differ, so an evening number is an estimate, not a record.
Not reliably. Institutional flow is one input among many, it is reported after the fact, and heavy foreign selling absorbed by domestic buying has frequently coincided with a rising market. Treat it as information about who is on which side, not as a forecast of the next session.
The cash number is outright buying and selling of shares, so it reflects money entering or leaving the market. The derivatives figures cover index and stock futures and options, where a position can be a hedge against cash holdings rather than a directional view. The two can point opposite ways for that reason.
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