Nifty 50 was trading at 10790.05 (22, 0.2%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 36656.12 (61.8, 0.2%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 8823.60 (9.7, 0.1%)

Market breadth is in the red. Of the 1661 stocks traded today, 667 were on the uptick, and 941 were down.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Future Retail Ltd. (111.05, 4.96%), Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd. (246.65, 4.76%) and Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd. (2205.05, 4.52%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include IDBI Bank Ltd. (41.55, -4.92%), Avenue Supermarts Ltd. (2232.25, -3.89%) and Aditya Birla Capital Ltd. (60.15, -3.53%).

Volume Shockers

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Caplin Point Laboratories Ltd. (364.45, 5.87%), KSB Ltd. (551.60, 5.76%) and Tata Communications Ltd. (666.00, 5.00%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were IDBI Bank Ltd. (41.55, -4.92%) and Avenue Supermarts Ltd. (2232.25, -3.89%).

Future Consumer Ltd. (11.70, 4.46%) was trading at 20.1 times of weekly average. Suprajit Engineering Ltd. (160.85, 1.71%) and Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd. (345.00, 0.58%) were trading with volumes 6.8 and 5.1 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

11 stocks took off, crossing 52 week highs, while 1 stock tanked below their 52 week lows.

Stocks touching their year highs included - Biocon Ltd. (418.60, 1.04%), Britannia Industries Ltd. (3811.15, 2.27%) and Escorts Ltd. (1130.00, -0.58%).

Stock making new 52 weeks lows included - Omaxe Ltd. (75.85, -4.95%).

15 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Thyrocare Technologies Ltd. (552.60, 4.59%) and Hindustan Zinc Ltd. (195.50, 3.33%). 13 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including GHCL Ltd. (155.90, -2.90%) and HDFC Bank Ltd. (1076.00, -2.63%).