How to Read the NEPSE Floorsheet
Updated · 5 min read
The floorsheet lists every trade on the Nepal Stock Exchange with its buying and selling broker. Here is what each column means and what it can and cannot tell you.
The floorsheet is the trade-by-trade record of a NEPSE session. Every matched order appears once, with the scrip, the quantity, the rate, and the broker on each side. It is the most granular public data the exchange publishes, and it is the only place you can see who traded rather than just what traded.
The columns
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Contract no. | Unique id for the matched trade |
| Symbol | The scrip traded |
| Buyer | Broker code on the buying side |
| Seller | Broker code on the selling side |
| Quantity | Number of shares in this single trade |
| Rate | Price per share for this trade |
| Amount | Quantity multiplied by rate, before fees |
One order can produce many floorsheet rows. A 10,000-share order filled against eight counterparties appears as eight lines, which is why row counts are a poor proxy for interest.
What broker-wise data can tell you
- Concentration.If one broker code is on the buy side of most of a scrip's volume, the day's move came from few hands rather than broad demand.
- Absorption. A price that barely moves on heavy volume means large sell orders are being absorbed at that level — or that one participant is trading with themselves across brokers.
- Average traded price. Amount divided by quantity across all rows gives the volume-weighted price, which is a better reference than the closing print.
What it cannot tell you
A broker code is not an investor. Brokers execute for hundreds of clients, so "broker 58 is accumulating" means only that broker 58's clients, in aggregate, bought. Large institutions also split orders across brokers precisely so that the floorsheet reveals nothing.
Nor does the floorsheet show intent. A buy and a sell are the same trade seen from two sides; there is no way to tell which side initiated it from the sheet alone.
A practical routine
- Start from the day's movers on the market page, not from the floorsheet — the sheet is too large to browse cold.
- Filter the floorsheet to the symbol you care about and look at how volume distributes across brokers.
- Cross-check against the broker pages to see whether that broker is unusually active in the scrip or simply large overall.
- If a pattern looks interesting, ask the NEPSE AI chatto summarise the day's broker activity for that symbol rather than reading thousands of rows by hand.
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