FII DII Data — Today, Monthly & Yearly History

What FII and DII mean

Two kinds of big investors dominate Indian equity flows, and FII/DII data tracks both. FIIs — Foreign Institutional Investors — are institutions based outside India: global mutual funds, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds and overseas pension money (regulators also call them FPIs, Foreign Portfolio Investors). DIIs — Domestic Institutional Investors — are India-based institutions: domestic mutual funds, insurance companies, banks and pension funds such as the EPFO. Between them they account for a large share of daily turnover, so their net buying and selling moves prices.

What "net" means (buy minus sell)

After every trading session the exchange reports, for FIIs and for DIIs separately, the gross buy value, the gross sell value and the net figure — all in ₹ crore. The net is simply:

A positive net means that group was a net buyer that day (it put more money in than it took out); a negative net means net selling (it pulled money out). So "FII net −₹3,200 Cr, DII net +₹2,800 Cr" reads as: foreigners sold ₹3,200 crore more than they bought, while domestic institutions bought ₹2,800 crore more than they sold. These are the two headline numbers everyone quotes.

Why FII and DII flows move the Nifty and Sensex

The Nifty 50 and Sensex are capitalisation-weighted indices, so when large institutions buy or sell index-heavy stocks in size, the indices follow. FIIs in particular have historically been the swing factor: because their flows are large and can reverse quickly with global conditions, heavy FII selling has often coincided with market corrections and sustained FII buying with rallies. DIIs act as a domestic counterweight — fed by steady SIP and insurance inflows, they frequently buy into FII-driven dips, which is why Indian indices have stayed resilient through several spells of foreign outflows. The day-to-day link is loose; the multi-week trend is what tends to matter.

How to read divergence (FII sell + DII buy)

The most common — and most informative — pattern is divergence: FIIs net selling while DIIs net buying (or vice-versa). It happens because the two camps respond to different drivers. FIIs react to global cues — the US dollar, American bond yields, global risk appetite and how India is valued versus other emerging markets. DIIs deploy the predictable domestic money flowing in from SIPs, insurance premiums and pension contributions. When you see FII sell + DII buy, the takeaway is that domestic institutions are absorbing foreign outflows; the index can hold up even on a heavy FII-selling day. The opposite — FIIs buying while DIIs book profits — also occurs. Reading the gap between the two is more useful than either number on its own. Many investors sidestep this timing question entirely by investing steadily through a SIP; you can also track individual companies on our share price page.

Cash market vs F&O — a key caveat

The headline FII/DII figures on this page are cash-market flows: actual purchases and sales of shares in the secondary market. They are not the same as the derivatives (futures and options) positions FIIs run, which are usually far larger in notional value and are reported separately by the NSE as participant-wise open interest. A day can show modest cash-market FII selling while foreigners build big index-future positions, so the cash number alone never tells the whole story. For "are institutions net adding to their equity holdings?", the cash-market net is the cleaner read.

Where NSE publishes it, and the daily timing

The official, primary source is the NSE "FII/DII Trading Activity" report on nseindia.com, updated after market close on every trading day — usually available by the evening (India time). The BSE publishes its own version, and the depositories (NSDL and CDSL) report the broader FPI cash-plus-debt split. The same-day numbers are provisional and can be revised slightly afterwards. There is no FII/DII print on weekends or exchange holidays, since there is no trading. As of 2026-08-13; figures here are provisional NSE data — always verify the exact number on nseindia.com.