Thursday, May 25, 2006

Why Panic, It's Normal FII Activity


MAY comes to haunt once again. The bad news is that the Indian stock markets have had a hard knock and tumble. As usual fear grips with doomsday conversations doing the rounds that the FIIs have pulled out their money. This is however a fact. The good news, however, is that this is nothing unusual. FII pullouts have repeated at relatively predicitible points in the past.

The fact that I have woken up early to write this means it has been playing on my mind since last evening, and each time I have had such nagging ideas I have been absolutely correct. I say this rather humbly.

The total amount of money pulled out by FIIs this month is Rs 3,500 crore.The last time the index fell, in October 2005, FIIs had pulled out Rs 3,805 crore. At the time, Nifty index slumped to 2300.

So what makes it different this time. Despite all intelligent reasons attributed to it–rising US interest rates, metals meltdown–as of today, the FIIs have pulled out less than they did in October 2005. This is positive news.

There was another occassion, May 2004, when such a large sum was sucked out by the FIIs, again Rs 3,250 crore.

In my opinion, considering the large sums of monies involved, FIIIs would pull at most another 500 to 750 crore, taking the Nifty index lower by another 200 points to about 2,750. From this point onward we should see the markets start to move up.

Despite all the noise around, I continue to be very bullish. Yet I love and will embrace 2750 because it is an essential part of the great times ahead.

Posted by Eclectic Investor at 9:02 AM  

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