Markets closed up today. Nifty 50 closed at 11227.55 (177.3, 1.6%) , BSE Sensex closed at 37981.63 (593.0, 1.6%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 9330.25 (174.2, 1.9%)

Market breadth is ticking up strongly. Of the 1683 stocks traded today, 1270 were on the uptrend, and 337 went down.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include IndusInd Bank Ltd. (556.75, 8.14%), HDFC Asset Management Company Ltd. (2273.00, 7.69%) and Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd. (155.65, 7.16%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Alkem Laboratories Ltd. (2750.00, -1.87%), Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd. (57.35, -1.71%) and Bayer Cropscience Ltd. (5914.00, -1.28%).

Volume Rockets

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included NOCIL Ltd. (146.00, 13.31%), PVR Ltd. (1233.65, 12.05%) and Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. (1786.60, 9.16%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Redington (India) Ltd. (115.95, -1.74%) and Spandana Sphoorty Financial Ltd. (518.70, -0.19%).

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. (667.50, 4.62%) was trading at 11.9 times of weekly average. Indoco Remedies Ltd. (264.85, 1.20%) and Mahindra Logistics Ltd. (341.55, 7.76%) were trading with volumes 6.0 and 4.3 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

15 stocks overperformed with 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd. (2062.00, 1.69%), Balkrishna Industries Ltd. (1447.65, 6.76%) and Escorts Ltd. (1293.00, 7.45%).

60 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Himadri Speciality Chemical Ltd. (55.50, 9.25%) and Swan Energy Ltd. (124.30, 8.09%). 1 stock slipped below their 200 SMA including Akzo Nobel India Ltd. (2067.00, 2.57%).