Nifty Financial Services Option Chain
A real-time Nifty Financial Services option chain, streamed straight from the NSE feed. Every strike carries last-traded price, open interest and today's OI change, implied volatility, volume and the full greeks, with the at-the-money strike highlighted and the spot and PCR live above the table. Below it you get open interest charted by strike, the call and put walls that act as resistance and support, and Max Pain.
Option Chain
— · live LTP, OI & greeks across — strikes.
About Nifty Financial Services
FINNIFTY covers financial services more broadly than Nifty Bank: banks plus NBFCs, insurers and housing-finance companies. That wider mix dilutes single-bank shocks, which makes it the cleaner instrument for expressing a view on Indian financials as a sector rather than on lenders alone.
How to read the Nifty Financial Services option chain
Calls sit on the left of the table, puts on the right, and the strike price runs down the middle. The at-the-money strike is highlighted, and in-the-money rows are shaded on each side — so the shading crosses over at the money, which is the fastest way to find where price actually is.
Four columns carry most of the information. LTP is the last traded premium. OI is how many contracts remain open at that strike, and OI change is how that has moved today — the difference between a level that has been crowded for a week and one that is being built right now. IV is the implied volatility the market is charging, and comparing it across strikes shows you the skew: which side traders are paying up to own.
FINNIFTY is liquid near the money and thins out quickly further away, so treat far-strike open interest with more scepticism than you would on NIFTY. Implied volatility usually sits below Nifty Bank's for the same tenor, and that is not a mispricing: the broader constituent mix really is less jumpy, and the chain prices it accordingly.
Below the table, open interest is charted by strike so the walls are visible at a glance, alongside Max Pain and the put-call ratio. Hovering any cell brings up that leg's day open, high, low, previous close, greeks and last trade time.
Nifty Financial Services contract specifications
- Exchange
- NSE
- Underlying
- Nifty Financial Services index
- Lot size
- 60
- Quoted in
- rupees per index point
- Expiry cycle
- Monthly
- Trading hours
- 9:15 AM to 3:30 PM IST, Monday to Friday
Lot sizes and expiry cycles are revised by the exchanges from time to time. Confirm against the current NSE contract specification before sizing a position — the days-to-expiry shown above the live data is always taken from the contract actually being streamed.
Nifty Financial Services option chain — common questions
How do I read open interest on the Nifty Financial Services chain?
Open interest is the number of contracts still open at a strike, and its change through the day is the useful part. Rising OI with a rising premium is fresh buying; rising OI with a falling premium is fresh writing. The strike carrying the largest call OI tends to act as resistance and the largest put OI as support. FINNIFTY is liquid near the money and thins out quickly further away, so treat far-strike open interest with more scepticism than you would on NIFTY. Implied volatility usually sits below Nifty Bank's for the same tenor, and that is not a mispricing: the broader constituent mix really is less jumpy, and the chain prices it accordingly.
What does the Nifty Financial Services PCR tell me?
The put-call ratio is total put open interest divided by total call open interest across the strikes on this page. Above roughly 1.0 more puts are open than calls, which is conventionally read as bullish positioning because puts are predominantly written; below 1.0 the reverse. It is a positioning gauge, not a signal, and it is most informative when you watch it move rather than when you read a single value.
What is Max Pain on Nifty Financial Services?
Max Pain is the strike at which the total intrinsic value of all in-the-money options — the amount option writers would have to pay out — is at its minimum. The theory is that price gravitates toward it into expiry because writers are the better-capitalised side. Treat it as one input among several: it is computed from the current open-interest snapshot and it moves as that snapshot changes.
How is FINNIFTY different from Bank Nifty?
Bank Nifty is banks. FINNIFTY is banks plus NBFCs, insurers and housing finance, so a shock to one lender moves it less. In practice FINNIFTY's implied volatility sits below Bank Nifty's for the same tenor, and its chain thins out faster away from the money.
Is this Nifty Financial Services option chain live?
Yes. Bullmatics holds one streaming connection to the exchange feed and fans every tick out to all visitors over a single websocket, so the option chain on this page updates in real time during market hours (9:15 AM to 3:30 PM IST, Monday to Friday). Outside those hours it shows the last completed session rather than going blank.
What is the Nifty Financial Services option lot size?
Nifty Financial Services options trade in lots of 60, quoted in rupees per index point. So a premium of 100 is worth 6,000 rupees per lot. Exchanges revise lot sizes periodically — check the current NSE contract specification before you size a position.
Do I need an account or a broker login to use this?
No. There is no signup, no broker login and no paywall. The option chain above is the same data every other visitor sees, streamed from one shared market connection. Bullmatics is an analytics and education tool only — you cannot place orders here, and nothing on this page is investment advice.
What are the Nifty Financial Services option trading hours?
Nifty Financial Services options trade 9:15 AM to 3:30 PM IST, Monday to Friday, and the exchange is closed on its published trading holidays. The 9:00 to 9:15 AM pre-open period is not charted here — that move is reported as the day change above the chart instead.
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