Nifty 50 was trading at 11957.15 (47, 0.4%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 40563.26 (150.7, 0.4%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 9677.55 (41.3, 0.4%)

Market breadth is in the green. Of the 1630 stocks traded today, 947 were in the positive territory and 574 were negative.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include YES Bank Ltd. (46.20, 7.94%), Tata Motors Limited (DVR) (69.90, 6.31%) and Tata Motors Ltd. (171.25, 5.84%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Adani Transmission Ltd. (332.70, -2.68%), Infosys Ltd. (702.60, -2.56%) and Oil And Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (125.80, -1.72%).

Volume Rockets

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

Top high volume gainer on BSE included Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (187.40, 3.11%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Ipca Laboratories Ltd. (1125.30, -1.47%), Grindwell Norton Ltd. (565.00, -1.00%) and PI Industries Ltd. (1474.00, -0.83%).

Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd. (2907.00, -0.45%) was trading at 4.2 times of weekly average. Indian Energy Exchange Ltd. (139.00, -0.04%) and Nilkamal Ltd. (1279.00, -0.26%) were trading with volumes 3.4 and 3.2 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 10 stocks hit their 52 week lows.

Stocks touching their year highs included - Crisil Ltd. (1710.00, 2.68%), Divi's Laboratories Ltd. (1822.05, 0.01%) and DLF Ltd. (223.75, 0.18%).

Stocks making new 52 weeks lows included - Allahabad Bank (19.40, 0.78%) and Caplin Point Laboratories Ltd. (294.05, 2.01%).

9 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Aditya Birla Capital Ltd. (99.00, 3.34%) and Tata Metaliks Ltd. (594.30, 2.98%). 3 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including HCL Technologies Ltd. (537.80, -1.10%) and Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. (664.95, -0.84%).