Markets are trading on a low note. Nifty 50 was trading at 14591.15 (-506.2, -3.4%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 49359.97 (-1679.3, -3.3%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 12209.75 (-358.1, -2.9%)

Market breadth is highly negative. Of the 1687 stocks traded today, 378 showed gains, and 1233 showed losses.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Thermax Ltd. (1339.05, 3.33%), Dalmia Bharat Ltd. (1486.15, 2.89%) and Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation Ltd. (1773.05, 2.67%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Au Small Finance Bank Ltd. (1099.80, -5.73%), Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd. (206.70, -5.64%) and Shriram Transport Finance Company Ltd. (1302.90, -5.61%).

Crowd Puller Stocks

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd. (77.10, 13.88%), KSB Ltd. (758.60, 6.91%) and Symphony Ltd. (1136.90, 5.76%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Just Dial Ltd. (735.55, -4.21%) and ACC Ltd. (1769.00, -1.79%).

Wockhardt Ltd. (507.40, 2.94%) was trading at 4.3 times of weekly average. Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation Ltd. (1773.05, 2.67%) and Mahindra Logistics Ltd. (486.10, 1.15%) were trading with volumes 3.5 and 3.3 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

31 stocks made 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - ACC Ltd. (1769.00, -1.79%), Astral Poly Technik Ltd. (2127.90, 0.53%) and BEML Ltd. (1080.75, 0.98%).

3 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Himadri Speciality Chemical Ltd. (54.00, 9.53%) and Godrej Agrovet Ltd. (486.00, 0.42%). 4 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including GMM Pfaudler Ltd. (4099.00, -3.10%) and Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. (684.55, -1.70%).