# Long unwinding — NSE scan

> Longs closing out into a drifting price — a trend quietly losing its sponsors.

Canonical: https://patternsradar.com/screener/long-unwinding

```sift
from fno where fut_oi_change_pct < -2 and change < -0.5
```

Price easing lower while open interest shrinks means longs are leaving without shorts replacing them — an orderly exit rather than an attack. The thresholds here are looser than the buildup scans on purpose: unwinding is gradual by nature, a position book being trimmed over days, and waiting for a dramatic print would miss most of it.

Category: [Derivatives](https://patternsradar.com/scans/derivatives.md). Default universe: top 500 NSE stocks by 20-day turnover.

The rendered page runs this scan against the latest session and can replay it across the last 250 sessions to measure its hit rate: https://patternsradar.com/screener/long-unwinding.