Nifty 50 was trading at 11291.60 (-16.8, -0.2%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 38297.98 (-71.7, -0.2%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 9298.10 (13.3, 0.1%)

Market breadth is in the green. Of the 1657 stocks traded today, 960 were gainers and 609 were losers.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Ashok Leyland Ltd. (60.70, 12.51%), Tata Motors Limited (DVR) (47.85, 11.41%) and Bharat Forge Ltd. (483.50, 11.20%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. (882.90, -5.49%), Emami Ltd. (315.35, -4.35%) and Natco Pharma Ltd. (822.00, -3.16%).

Volume Rockets

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included KPR Mill Ltd. (556.50, 13.71%), Ashok Leyland Ltd. (60.70, 12.51%) and Venky's (India) Ltd. (1284.35, 12.18%).

Top high volume loser on BSE was Bharti Airtel Ltd. (536.40, -2.06%).

Navneet Education Ltd. (80.05, 3.83%) was trading at 9.1 times of weekly average. Galaxy Surfactants Ltd. (1842.00, 6.66%) and Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd. (182.95, 8.00%) were trading with volumes 5.3 and 4.6 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

9 stocks hit their 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Balkrishna Industries Ltd. (1368.90, -0.68%), Gujarat Gas Ltd. (325.00, 1.26%) and HCL Technologies Ltd. (724.40, 1.02%).

27 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including KPR Mill Ltd. (556.50, 13.71%) and Jamna Auto Industries Ltd. (37.30, 10.36%). 7 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Schneider Electric Infrastructure Ltd. (78.25, -3.75%) and Aster DM Healthcare Ltd. (132.75, -3.73%).