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Who is buying: foreign, domestic and retail flows
Read the daily flow numbers and know which of them carry information.
Key ideas
- Foreign portfolio investors drive large-cap direction over weeks. Their flows follow the dollar, US yields and relative earnings.
- Domestic institutions, fed by monthly SIP inflows, are now a steady buyer that cushions foreign selling.
- The provisional cash-market figure published each evening is the fast signal. Depository data, a day later, splits flows by equity, debt and sector.
- Flows confirm trends more often than they lead them. The useful signal is a change in streak, or flows and price disagreeing.
Start hereWatch or read these first. They carry the core idea.
How to Analyze FII & DII Data | Institutional Activity Explained
Video · Kirubakaran Rajendran · 13:16
How to read the daily foreign and domestic institutional numbers without over-reading them.
Data
CoreThe standard references. Work through them once the idea is clear.
Data
Data
Report
RBI Bulletin, with the monthly State of the Economy article
Reserve Bank of India
The wider balance of payments picture.
Practice
Track the five-day sum of foreign and domestic flows from the Desk for a month. Mark the days the foreign streak flips and what the Nifty did over the next week.
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Where this leads
05.3 · Macro and LiquidityThe dollar, carry and the global financial cycleExplain why a strong dollar tightens conditions everywhere, and how carry trades build and unwind.07.3 · Indian Market StructureDerivatives rules, expiries and what the regulator foundKnow the contract rules that shape Indian derivatives and the evidence on who makes money in them.