Markets are trading on a low note. Nifty 50 was trading at 9359.15 (-500.8, -5.1%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 31983.39 (-1734.2, -5.1%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 7647.85 (-365.1, -4.6%)

Market breadth is moving down. Of the 1614 stocks traded today, 278 were on the uptrend, and 1263 went down.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (24.05, 7.13%), Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. (660.55, 5.54%) and United Breweries Ltd. (988.00, 5.26%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Bharat Forge Ltd. (272.30, -11.93%), Motherson Sumi Systems Ltd. (77.20, -11.82%) and L&T Finance Holdings Ltd. (58.40, -10.98%).

Volume Rockets

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (24.05, 7.13%), Gayatri Projects Ltd. (14.80, 4.96%) and Sadbhav Engineering Ltd. (49.10, 4.91%).

Top high volume loser on BSE was Kalpataru Power Transmissions Ltd. (218.50, -4.42%).

Shriram City Union Finance Ltd. (742.00, 1.27%) was trading at 6.1 times of weekly average. Radico Khaitan Ltd. (307.45, 4.54%) was trading with volume 3.3 times weekly average on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

1 stock overperformed with 52 week highs, while 6 stocks were underachievers and hit their 52 week lows.

Stock touching their year highs included - Torrent Power Ltd. (332.00, 0.51%).

Stocks making new 52 weeks lows included - Bank of Baroda (45.95, -6.61%) and Godrej Industries Ltd. (253.40, -4.21%).

6 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Swan Energy Ltd. (104.70, 4.54%) and MOIL Ltd. (134.00, 3.47%). 12 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including La Opala RG Ltd. (163.50, -7.13%) and Balkrishna Industries Ltd. (875.50, -6.34%).