Roll Over Snapshot
February, 2010
Total Roll Overs at 83% & Nifty Roll Overs at 67%
After reasonably strong start in February series Nifty topped out in initial sessions itself. Nifty gave into its low for the
month in a couple of days. The consolidation in next three weeks landed Nifty less than half a percent near its beginning.
Roll Over Update
February series ended with Stock rollover of 83.4% (6-m avg. 84.3%) and Nifty rollover of 67.1 % (6-m avg. 72%). Stock
futures also had a lull in incremental participation after the initial fall; however the recovery brought the open interest up
to 1.66bn. Decent rollovers post that help March expiry open with 1.37bn shares in open interest, without any month
over month decrement. On the Nifty the apprehension took its toll, as the participants rolled Nifty at nearly 7% slower
than averages resulting into one of the lightest participation in recent months of little less than 22nm shares.
Sectorwise Roll Overs
Sector
Roll Overs
Current
6-m Avg.
81.80
83.01
89.50
86.27
86.38
74.47
78.40
82.01
84.20
79.45
85.58
80.31
87.81
76.88
85.13
79.65
84.36
88.85
82.76
86.84
81.11
88.74
83.33
84.54
80.74
83.25
81.97
86.00
80.48
86.22
On aggregate basis FMCG, Technology, Infra & Realty stocks
rolled slower; while Cement, Sugar & Fertilizer rolled faster.
Except Auto, Cement, Engineering, Power and Sugar all
other sectors rolled slower than their resepctive 6-m aver-
ages.
Auto
Banking & Fin.
Cement
Engineering
Fertilizer
FMCG
Infra
Metal
Oil & Gas
Pharma
Power
Realty
Sugar
Technology
Telecom
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