Foreign Investors Bought ₹28,725 Crore in Two Days While Domestic Funds Sold. How to Read the Flip
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Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) bought heavily on November 5 and 6, while domestic institutional investors (DIIs) sold on both days. The pattern reverses what India's market saw through much of the year.
The numbers (NSE provisional data)
| | Nov 5 | Nov 6 | |---|---|---| | FII net buy | ₹14,975 crore | ₹13,750 crore | | DII net sell | ₹10,445 crore | ₹5,969 crore | | Net of the two | +₹4,530 crore | +₹7,781 crore |
Over the five sessions from November 2 to 6, StockPil, citing NSE provisional data, puts FIIs at net buyers of ₹45,960 crore and DIIs at net sellers of ₹24,197 crore, a combined net purchase of ₹21,763 crore for those two groups.
Different datasets give different totals
Not every report agrees. One summary of an NSE capital-market snapshot puts November 5 at ₹13,802 crore for FIIs and ₹10,107 crore for DIIs. The ₹14,975 crore and ₹10,445 crore figures are from the provisional series. Both are labelled NSE data, but the basis of the discrepancy has not been independently established. Check each source and its coverage before comparing them. Final figures can also be revised.
Is it a record?
We can't confirm it from an exchange source. One data site that keeps a daily series back to 2007 ranks November 5 as the fourth-largest FII buying day and the largest DII selling day it has recorded. We treat that as unverified until an exchange or depository series confirms it, and we make no claim about records.
What was happening before
FIIs had been net sellers for about ten weeks until early November, according to a Multibagg summary, which also reports that DIIs bought about ₹62,220 crore in October. The two groups moved in opposite directions, but the aggregate figures do not identify counterparties. Multibagg's reading is that DIIs may be booking profits as the market rallies. That is its interpretation, and the data itself does not show why institutions traded.
How to read it
Every share bought needs a seller. Combining the two groups’ net flows gives a smaller net figure than the FII figure alone; it does not establish that the groups traded with one another or represent the net flow of the entire market. DIIs include mutual funds, insurers and banks, so their net selling in a day does not by itself mean investors are redeeming.
Our analysis
The most useful figure is the smallest: ₹4,530 crore of combined net purchases by these two groups; the two group-level net figures do not measure total gross trading. Two days make a pattern worth watching, not a trend. Read FII and DII figures together, and wait for final data before drawing conclusions.
*This article is for information only and is not investment advice. Markets carry risk.*
Sources:
- FII vs DII this week, Nov 2–6 (StockPil, citing NSE provisional data)
- Foreign investors pump Rs 15,000 crore into Indian markets in one day (Trak.in)
- FII–DII flow shift, NSE capital-market snapshot (Multibagg)
- FIIs buy, DIIs sell: market impact (Multibagg)
- FII buying, DII selling: record November 2026 (Craytheon data site, unverified rankings)