At a glance: Here's how the derivatives markets look today

While the Nifty and the Sensex enjoy a bounce on Thursday, a large part of these gains are due to the monthly of futures and options contracts today. Here is a snapshot how the derivatives markets are faring at 1:30 PM.

MAJOR INDICES
Nifty Futures up 1.8 percent at 7,939 points
Bank Nifty Futures up 1.3 percent at 17,151 points
CNX IT Futures up 1.3 percent at 11,425 points


TOP PRICE GAINERS
Adani Enterprises
JSW Energy
Cairn
HDFC

TOP PRICE LOSERS
BHEL
Amara Raja Batteries
GMR Infra
Bajaj Auto

TOP OI GAINERS
Oil India
South Indian Bank
Oracle Finance
Adani Ent

TOP OI LOSERS
JP Power
Apollo Tyres
MRF
M&M Fin

TOP TRADED FUTURES
Reliance Industries
Tata Motors
HDFC Bank


TOP TRADED CALLS
Tata Steel 220 Call August
SBI 250 Call August
Infosys 1100 Call August
Reliance 880 Call August

MONTHLY PICTURE:
Since the last Thursday of each month is the expiry day for futures and options contracts, here is a snapshot of how sectors performed in August. Only the pharma sector was able to keep its head above water in the face of intense selling. This points to an extremely defensive nature of the market as of now. Meanwhile, here are the worst performing sectors:

Infrastructure down 15.8 pct
Telecom down 15.7 pct
Metals fell 13.7 pct
Power lost 11.9 pct
Capital Goods down 11.3 pct
Finance lost 10 pct

Pharma gained 1.8 pct

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