Where institutional money is flowing in real time — FII/DII positioning, F&O OI, named bulk deals, insider activity, all on one free dashboard.
'Smart money' is the shorthand traders use for large institutional players whose flows reliably lead the market: Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs), domestic mutual funds, insurance companies, prop desks, and the occasional high-conviction HNI. They have research teams you don't. They move enough capital that their positioning matters. Following their flows is one of the most durable edges retail traders have ever discovered.
Strota's mission is to make that following frictionless. Every piece of smart-money data that's publicly disclosed in Indian markets is in one place, refreshed live, free.
FII / DII positioning — exchanges publish participant-wise open interest in F&O derivatives every trading day. We track the FII net-long ratio on index futures (the single highest-signal smart-money number in Indian markets) plus the multi-session direction streak — is the institutional bias building or fading?
FII / DII cash flow — daily net cash market buy/sell from official market data feeds. Cash flow alone is a coarse signal but combined with derivative positioning it tells a complete story (e.g. heavy cash buying + futures hedge-short = nervous accumulation).
Bulk & block deals with named counterparties — every deal of size, disclosed to the exchange the same evening, with the counterparty name visible. Strota tags FIIs, mutual funds, insurance, promoters, and known HNIs separately.
Insider & promoter activity — regulatory insider-trading (PIT) and substantial-acquisition (SAST) disclosures. Tracks when designated persons and promoters trade their own company's stock.
F&O OI buildup — open-interest changes on stock futures, classified per stock into Long Buildup / Short Covering / Short Buildup / Long Unwinding.
Live option chain with Greeks — strike-by-strike OI, IV, Delta, Theta, Vega for NIFTY, BankNifty, and ~200 F&O stocks.
Raw data is necessary but not sufficient. Strota adds a synthesis layer — rule-based, auditable, no ML or LLM hallucination risk — that combines 2-3 underlying signals into a plain-English read.
Example: 'FIIs hold heavy short positions (-67%) but covered for 2 sessions in a row. This is the early shape of a short-covering rally. Watch for a break above yesterday's high on volume to accelerate.' That's the kind of one-sentence interpretation that's actionable; the underlying numbers are visible on the dashboard for you to verify.
Each insight rule is traceable to the data points that fired it. Nothing is invented.
Most days, dozens of stocks have one smart-money signal firing — a meaningful price move, an OI buildup classification, a bulk deal, or an insider trade. But it's the stocks with several signals firing simultaneously that warrant attention.
The Stocks in Play section ranks F&O stocks by a composite score combining price magnitude, OI buildup, institutional deal flow, and insider activity. A stock at the top of this list has 3-4 concurrent signals — that's where the institutional conviction is, and that's where you start your research.
Because institutional flows are positively autocorrelated — what FIIs and MFs bought today, they often add to tomorrow. They have research advantages over retail and they move in size. Following their flows is a slow signal but historically a reliable one.
Yes — it's all on exchange and regulator websites if you know where to look. But it's spread across half a dozen pages, in raw archived files, with no synthesis on top. Strota's value is aggregation + interpretation in one place.
No. Strota is an analytics tool. Signals are descriptive pattern detections, not predictions or recommendations. Always do your own research.
True FII/DII flow by sector (requires a paid regulator feed); live deal flow (the public snapshot is EOD only); historical backtests on every detector (most validated, some experimental and clearly flagged).