What is put call ratio (PCR)?
Ans. Put call ratio (PCR) can be judged for a particular stock or index or all the available option stocks. In the Indian stock market context investors generally talk more about the PCR of nifty which can be found by the total number of nifty puts divided by total numbers of nifty calls (Nifty Puts/ Nifty Calls). The data can be available from the Nse site. PCR ratio has not been able to give clear guidance of the trend of Indian stock market.
