Every trade has two sides
Each trade has one buyer and one seller, so the money that bought a share is the same money that sold it. Money flow does not count who traded. It asks which side was keener.
A trade above the previous price counts as buyer-led: someone paid up to get the share. A trade below the previous price counts as seller-led. A trade at the same price keeps the side of the trade before it. Pre-open trades and odd lots count as neither.
Net value and big trades
Net value is buyer-led value minus seller-led value. Big-trade net counts only trades of Rs 10 lakh and up, split into Rs 10 to 50 lakh and Rs 50 lakh and above.
Net-buying brokers counts how many brokers bought more than they sold over the period, out of all brokers that traded the scrip. Each broker's buying and selling are added up over the whole period first.
A shop example
A vegetable seller raises the price of tomatoes through the morning and still sells out. Buyers were keen. Another seller keeps cutting the price to clear the stall. Sellers were keen. Both stalls sold the same weight; what differs is who gave way on price.
What it does and does not show
Money flow describes what happened. It is not a forecast, and a scrip at the top of the list is not a pick. Busy lists like this draw crowds, and in studies of retail markets the scrips at the top fell back on average soon after.
History starts on 29 October 2026, when the site began saving it. Longer periods say how many sessions they hold until they are full.
Practice
- Open the money flow page and read the top row of Most buyer-led.
- Compare its net value with its big-trade net: was the buying led by big trades or small ones?
- Switch to Most seller-led and find a scrip from the same sector.
Where this is used here
This lesson explains how to read prices and the tools here. It is not advice to buy or sell anything.