Futures & Options (F&O) Highlights for today, 18th July, 2025

Short build up being seen in Nifty & Bank Nifty Futures

Create Shorts with stop loss (SL) at 25350 Levels

On weekly options expiry yesterday, profit booking was seen in Indian stock markets post a higher opening. This profit booking continued throughout the day. Nifty finally ended the day with a loss of 111 points or 0.40%, to close at 25,111 level.

Short Build-Up was seen in Nifty Futures where Open Interest rose by 1.33% with Nifty 50 falling by 0.40%.

Short Build-Up was seen in Bank Nifty Futures where Open Interest rose by 1.33% with Bank Nifty falling by 0.59%.

Nifty Open Interest Put Call ratio fell to 0.94 levels from 1.07 levels.

Amongst the Nifty options (24-Jul Expiry), Call writing is being seen at 25300-25400 levels. This indicates that Nifty is likely to find strong resistance in the vicinity of 25300-25400 levels. On the lower side, an immediate support is placed in the vicinity of 25000-25100 levels where we see Put writing.

Short build-up was seen from the side of FIIs in the Index Futures segment where they net sold contracts worth 1,989 cr with their Open Interest going up by 6483 contracts.

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Source: HDFC Securities Prime Research