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the role of open interest in futures markets

What is the role of open interest in Futures markets?

Elearnmarkets by Elearnmarkets
June 13, 2021
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When we look at a certain stock for trading, there are certain parameters we look at before we start investing in that stock such as technical parameters, fundamental parameters, futures and options parameters. One of the most important futures parameters is the role of open interest. When we talk about ‘open interest’ in the context of futures market, it is basically the total number of open contracts in the futures segment. In this article, we will discuss about the role of open interest in the futures market.

Table of Contents
What is Open Interest?
Role of Open Interest in the futures market
Open Interest Analysis Using StockEdge
Bottom Line

What is Open Interest?

In the futures market, there is a buyer and seller and together they make up one contract. Open Interest is defined by the number of open contracts in the market. The changes in open interest whether an increase or decrease in the number of contracts in each stock is recorded both during the live market and at the end of the day. This is shown by the positive or negative change. We can see the open interest data at the end of the day on the StockEdge website.

Suggested Read: How Open Interest Analysis helps to identify market trends?

This screen tells us the change in Open Interest as of 9TH July 2018. We can see that the stocks are listed in the ascending order from the most increase in the open interest to the most decrease in the open interest.
We can see that high open interest addition in the stocks like Hexaware Technologies, TCS etc. When the open interest increases with the increase in the price of that particular stock then it is said that open interest is confirming the uptrend. Similarly when the open interest increases with the decrease in the price of that particular stock then it is said it is confirming the downtrend.

Role of Open Interest in the futures market

The main role of open interest in the futures market is to determine whether the market is getting weaker or stronger. Let us discuss how:-

role of open interest

Here we can see that if the price increases with an increase in the open interest then it is a bullish signal as more buyers are entering the market and purchases are being made aggressively.

Also Read: How to use Open Interest Strategy to increase profitability?

Increase in the price with the decrease in the open interest can be taken as a bearish signal. This market condition takes place as there is a short covering in the market. This situation arises when the money is flowing out of the market. After the short covering, the prices will eventually decline. If the prices decrease with the increase in the open interest then this indicates that new short positions are taking place. A decline in both price and open interest gives a bearish signal.

Let us take an example:

From the image above we can see that the open interest in Mphasis Ltd. has increased as of 11th Jun 2021 compared to open interest on 10th June 2021.

We can see that there was an increase in the volume on 11th June 2021 as compared to 10th June 2021. This could have been taken as a bullish signal in Mphasis Ltd.

As we can see in the Daily chart of Mphasis Ltd. that it is already in an uptrend, with the increase in volume, open interest and price we can interpret that Mphasis Ltd. could stay bullish. Also, from the below image we can see that other technical indicators also giving bullish signals:

Open Interest Analysis Using StockEdge

We can also do this Open Interest analysis using StockEdge. There are future scans present in StockEdge. It has scans like open interest scans, long position scans, and short position scans. In the open interest scans, we can see the companies in which there is a high increase or decrease in the open interest. It automatically gives us the list of the companies with high or low open interest.

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We can see that TCS has come in the list of increase in the open interest. When we click on TCS we can see the present, near or future month open interest as well as cumulative of all these three months.0

stockedge future scans

Bottom Line

As discussed, the Open Interest helps the traders in the futures market to get a sense whether the market is getting weaker or stronger. This is the main role of open interest in the futures market. We should not fall into the trap by just analyzing the number of open interests in the future market but we should analyze it with respect to prices and volume. This is the most common mistake the traders do while analyzing the open interest.

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