Oil & Gas · F&O open-interest buildup · 2026-10-22
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Short covering
Short Covering · Technical: Caution (RSI 49.6, Stage 4) · Price is up as shorts close positions — support from covering, not fresh buying.
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
₹456.90
Price change
+0.64%
Futures OI (all expiries)
1.43 Cr
OI change
-0.08%
Rollover %
31.84%
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 Covering. Price up + open interest down — short positions being closed (supportive).
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
₹456.10
97.55 L
-38.88 L
-28.50%
Nov 2026
₹454.30
45.12 L
38.63 L
+594.61%
Dec 2026
₹453.70
44,800
14,000
+45.45%
All expiries (aggregate)
-
1.43 Cr
-11,200
-0.08%
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 (31.84% 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
Long BuildupShort BuildupLong UnwindingShort Covering
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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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