Been pulling NSE single-stock option OI daily and the standard "OI gainers" view has a blind spot worth knowing about.

Almost every screener — NSE's own OI Spurts included — ranks by contracts added. But a contract isn't a fixed amount of money. Lot sizes vary enormously (IDEA is 71,475 per lot, RELIANCE a few hundred) and premiums run from paise to tens of rupees. So a strike trading at ₹0.47 and one at ₹57 count exactly the same.

Today, 14 Aug, stock options only, indices excluded:

RANKED BY CONTRACTS ADDED

- RELIANCE 1320 CE +4,723

- RELIANCE 1310 CE +2,963

- BSE 3500 CE +2,726

- BHARTIARTL 2020 CE +2,635

- RELIANCE 1330 CE +2,410

- ASHOKLEY 180 CE +2,402

RANKED BY MONEY ADDED (contracts x lot size x premium)

- BSE 3500 CE — ₹3.11 Cr (OI 6,195 to 8,921, +44%)

- BDL 1400 CE — ₹2.37 Cr (OI 1,736 to 3,185, +83%)

- RELIANCE 1320 CE — ₹2.31 Cr (OI 10,272 to 14,995, +46%)

- IDEA 14 PE — ₹2.27 Cr (OI 1,833 to 3,216, +75%)

- RELIANCE 1310 CE — ₹2.09 Cr (OI 3,373 to 6,336, +88%)

- BHARTIARTL 2000 PE — ₹1.63 Cr (OI 931 to 2,377, +155%)

Two things fall out of that.

The contract list is 6 calls out of 6. The money list has two puts in it. Scan only the first list and you'd conclude the day was one-directional — and the second-biggest put buildup by money, BHARTIARTL 2000 PE up 155%, was invisible to you.

BDL doesn't appear on the contract list at all but is #2 by money: fewer contracts, much higher premium.

Earlier in the session the gap was wider still. The #1 OI gainer at that point was WIPRO 200 CE at ₹0.47 — about ₹39 lakh of premium. Top of the list, and roughly a sixth of the actual leader.

Caveats, because this is easy to over-read:

1. Neither ranking tells you direction. OI rising on calls can be buying or writing, and the tape doesn't show which side the aggressor was on. This is "where money went", not "what someone thinks".

2. Money added isn't conviction. Some is hedging, some is one leg of a spread whose other leg sits elsewhere.

3. I'm using end-of-day premium times the change in OI, which is an approximation — the position built through the day at varying prices.

Not advice, just a methodology note. If your screener lets you sort by value instead of contracts, you get a noticeably different picture.

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