Petrol Refining · F&O open-interest buildup · 2026-10-22
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Bearish positioning
Moderate Short Buildup · Technical: Weak (RSI 37.4, Stage 4) · Fresh short positions are being added.
How to read this. F&O positioning and the technical read are two separate lenses. Positioning (Long Buildup, Short Buildup, Short Covering, Long Unwinding) comes from how price and open interest moved together today — rising price with rising OI means fresh long positions. The technical read is StockLearn's chart verdict (Bullish, Caution, Weak). They can disagree: institutions often add longs before the chart confirms. When both agree, the signal is strongest — that's why we show them side by side rather than as one label.
Price
₹286.95
Price change
-0.36%
Futures OI (all expiries)
4.65 Cr
OI change
+2.99%
Rollover %
28.91%
Open-interest figures here are futures only (stock futures, all expiries summed). Options OI is excluded so the buildup state reflects pure directional futures positioning.
Short Buildup. Price down + open interest up — fresh short positions being added (bearish positioning).
Last 30 sessions. Axes are independently scaled, so the two lines share a time axis but not a value scale — read direction and turning points, not the gap between them.
Futures open interest by expiry
Expiry
Close
Futures OI
Chg in OI
OI %
Oct 2026
₹287.05
3.31 Cr
-96.28 L
-22.54%
Nov 2026
₹288.60
1.33 Cr
1.09 Cr
+460.32%
Dec 2026
₹290.05
1.52 L
51,350
+50.98%
All expiries (aggregate)
-
4.65 Cr
13.51 L
+2.99%
We sum open interest across all listed futures expiries for this underlying (near, next and far month), then compute OI % = change in OI ÷ previous OI × 100, where previous OI is yesterday's open interest (today's OI minus today's change). Exchange and broker pages usually show only the near-month future, so their near-month-only OI change can differ from this aggregate — for example when positions roll into the next expiry. Rollover % is the share of total futures OI sitting beyond the near month (28.91% here). It tends to rise through the expiry week as traders carry positions forward; a high or rising rollover signals positions being rolled rather than closed.
Positioning timeline
2026-09-232026-10-22
Short CoveringShort BuildupLong BuildupLong Unwinding
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Data as of 2026-10-22. Open interest from NSE F&O Bhavcopy (futures, all expiries aggregated); price from NSE cash market. Figures may be delayed and are for information only.
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