Markets are trading up today. Nifty 50 was trading at 14021.85 (387.3, 2.8%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 48031.57 (1745.8, 3.8%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 11570.95 (2.38%).

Market breadth is in the green. Of the 1689 stocks traded today, 1078 were in the positive territory and 541 were negative.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include IDBI Bank Ltd. (30.95, 11.53%), IndusInd Bank Ltd. (938.10, 10.87%) and ICICI Bank Ltd. (592.15, 10.27%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include UPL Ltd. (520.10, -7.23%), IDFC First Bank Ltd. (44.90, -4.87%) and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. (4419.85, -3.97%).

Crowd Puller Stocks

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Shriram City Union Finance Ltd. (1137.25, 11.64%), IDBI Bank Ltd. (30.95, 11.53%) and The New India Assurance Company Ltd. (138.25, 8.86%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were KRBL Ltd. (203.05, -14.38%), Sonata Software Ltd. (375.00, -2.85%) and IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd. (107.90, -0.51%).

General Insurance Corporation of India (140.55, 6.56%) was trading at 7.6 times of weekly average. Dilip Buildcon Ltd. (433.50, 2.51%) and VST Industries Ltd. (3536.80, 0.27%) were trading with volumes 5.4 and 5.3 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

8 stocks made 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Cummins India Ltd. (698.95, 4.89%), ICICI Bank Ltd. (592.15, 10.27%) and Lakshmi Machine Works Ltd. (5332.25, 0.76%).

6 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including General Insurance Corporation of India (140.55, 6.56%) and Manappuram Finance Ltd. (161.65, 3.56%). 8 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. (4419.85, -3.97%) and Pfizer Ltd. (4602.10, -0.75%).