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Glossary

Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.

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DII

Market basics

Domestic Institutional Investor — Indian mutual funds, insurers, pension funds and banks.

In plain terms

Funded by monthly SIP flows, which has made them the shock absorber against FII selling.

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DII stake

Fundamental analysis

The share of a company held by domestic institutional investors, reported in the quarterly shareholding pattern.

In plain terms

Domestic funds building over consecutive quarters is among the more reliable positive signals. One filing is a snapshot; four to eight of them is a trend.

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Institutional flow

Trading & orders

Buying and selling by funds, insurers and other large investors.

In plain terms

Published daily by the exchanges for FIIs and DIIs, and by name for bulk and block deals. Far less mysterious than it is made to sound.

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Indian stock market glossary · Market Vidyalaya