Upbeat trading today. Nifty 50 was trading at 14727.65 (198.5, 1.4%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 49660.81 (560.8, 1.1%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 12335.70 (1.27%).

Market breadth is highly positive. Of the 1725 stocks traded today, 1153 were gainers and 500 were losers.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. (215.75, 7.34%), Motherson Sumi Systems Ltd. (229.50, 7.24%) and Gujarat Gas Ltd. (526.25, 6.38%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Bharti Airtel Ltd. (526.95, -5.28%), Ajanta Pharma Ltd. (1697.50, -2.87%) and Vodafone Idea Ltd. (11.00, -2.65%).

Movers and Shakers

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Network 18 Media & Investments Ltd. (42.35, 12.93%), TV18 Broadcast Ltd. (31.25, 7.57%) and Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd. (31.50, 5.88%).

Top high volume loser on BSE was Blue Star Ltd. (860.85, -1.08%).

EID Parry (India) Ltd. (334.95, 5.40%) was trading at 3.9 times of weekly average. TVS Srichakra Ltd. (1938.55, 2.47%) and Rites Ltd. (252.95, 3.29%) were trading with volumes 3.5 and 3.4 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

46 stocks hit their 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Aegis Logistics Ltd. (317.10, 2.79%), Astral Poly Technik Ltd. (2180.00, 2.46%) and BEML Ltd. (1161.55, 7.66%).

9 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including TV18 Broadcast Ltd. (31.25, 7.57%) and Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd. (3150.10, 3.50%). 3 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd. (107.00, -0.97%) and Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. (680.40, -0.87%).