Markets are trading high. Nifty 50 was trading at 15124.35 (205.3, 1.4%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 51004.40 (707.5, 1.4%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 12691.40 (1.37%).

Market breadth is surging up. Of the 1692 stocks traded today, 1153 were on the uptrend, and 472 went down.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Adani Total Gas Ltd. (689.15, 20.00%), IDBI Bank Ltd. (34.25, 8.90%) and Adani Transmission Ltd. (843.75, 8.03%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Alkem Laboratories Ltd. (2855.90, -2.02%), Castrol India Ltd. (135.25, -1.99%) and SBI Cards and Payment Services Ltd. (1089.50, -1.68%).

Volume Rockets

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included IFCI Ltd. (12.80, 19.63%), Alok Industries Ltd. (22.35, 13.74%) and Shoppers Stop Ltd. (240.45, 13.37%).

Top high volume loser on BSE was Ircon International Ltd. (91.40, -6.64%).

Jindal Stainless Ltd. (78.70, 12.35%) was trading at 9.3 times of weekly average. Nilkamal Ltd. (1907.50, 4.11%) and Jindal Stainless (Hisar) Ltd. (134.00, 9.48%) were trading with volumes 7.8 and 6.7 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

74 stocks made 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - 3M India Ltd. (25954.35, 3.53%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. (749.70, 4.05%) and Adani Power Ltd. (65.70, 7.18%).

14 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Rallis India Ltd. (278.05, 7.77%) and IOL Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (693.00, 5.31%).