Upbeat trading today. Nifty 50 was trading at 11511.95 (48.0, 0.4%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 38832.14 (233.2, 0.6%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 9327.45 (0.49%).

Market breadth is in the green. Of the 1629 stocks traded today, 800 were on the uptrend, and 726 went down.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include YES Bank Ltd. (46.20, 12.55%), 3M India Ltd. (22750.00, 10.38%) and RBL Bank Ltd. (281.90, 9.07%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Vodafone Idea Ltd. (6.25, -4.58%), Exide Industries Ltd. (174.70, -4.46%) and National Aluminium Company Ltd. (40.10, -3.84%).

Movers and Shakers

14 stocks in BSE 500 are trading on high volumes today.

Top high volume gainers on BSE included The New India Assurance Company Ltd. (131.70, 15.68%), 3M India Ltd. (22750.00, 10.38%) and Lakshmi Machine Works Ltd. (3659.85, 9.85%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Exide Industries Ltd. (174.70, -4.46%), Ashoka Buildcon Ltd. (101.90, -3.23%) and MindTree Ltd. (726.00, -2.34%).

Sadbhav Engineering Ltd. (138.25, 3.75%) was trading at 14.3 times of weekly average. Emami Ltd. (345.60, 8.51%) and Indian Energy Exchange Ltd. (122.60, -1.64%) were trading with volumes 7.9 and 3.9 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

7 stocks made 52 week highs, while 26 stocks hit their 52 week lows.

Stocks touching their year highs included - Siemens Ltd. (1627.25, 0.99%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (2101.35, 1.47%) and HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd. (616.30, 0.93%).

Stocks making new 52 weeks lows included - Allahabad Bank (24.15, -1.63%) and Andhra Bank (15.95, 0.95%).

10 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including 3M India Ltd. (22750.00, 10.38%) and Eicher Motors Ltd. (20179.90, 4.99%). 6 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Symphony Ltd. (1256.25, -0.62%) and SJVN Ltd. (24.40, -0.61%).