Today was the bullish trend day for Indian Stock Market, BSE Index closed at 19121.01, the index touched a high and a low of 19,226.21 and 18,944.82, respectively. While Nifty index shut up at 5736.35, the index touched high of 5,770.35 and a low of 5680.70, respectively.

Nifty March 2011 futures closed at 5,754.20 at a premium of 17.85 over spot closing of 5,736.35, while Nifty April 2011 futures were at 5,784.00 at a premium of 47.65 points over spot closing. The near month March 2011 derivatives contract expires on Thursday, March 31, 2011. Nifty March futures saw an addition of 14.63% or 2.64 million (mn) units, taking the total outstanding open interest (OI) to 20.68 mn units.

For Nifty calls, 5800 strike price (SP) from the March series was the most active call with an addition of 1.32 mn or 21%. Among Nifty puts, 5700 SP from the March month expiry was the most active put with an addition of 2 mn or 36.43%. The maximum Call OI outstanding was at 5800 SP (7.62) and that for Puts at 5700 SP (7.49). The respective Support and Resistance levels are: Resistance 5777.56 --Pivot Point 5729.13--Support 5687.91. The Nifty Put Call Ratio (PCR) OI wise stood at 1.94 for March-month contracts.