The market is trading on an upbeat note. Nifty 50 was trading at 14872.10 (188.6, 1.3%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 49675.71 (474.3, 1.0%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 12507.65 (1.21%).

Market breadth is overwhelmingly positive. Of the 1721 stocks traded today, 1158 were on the uptrend, and 508 went down.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include City Union Bank Ltd. (164.50, 5.79%), Atul Ltd. (7919.90, 5.60%) and Ipca Laboratories Ltd. (2030.00, 4.68%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Adani Total Gas Ltd. (1115.80, -7.49%), Adani Transmission Ltd. (1058.90, -4.66%) and Adani Enterprises Ltd. (1170.25, -4.50%).

Volume Rockets

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included KPIT Technologies Ltd. (193.95, 12.21%), CARE Ratings Ltd. (462.00, 11.00%) and Shilpa Medicare Ltd. (379.15, 9.30%).

Top high volume loser on BSE was IIFL Wealth Management Ltd. (1280.00, -1.85%).

Orient Refractories Ltd. (268.10, 4.00%) was trading at 4.6 times of weekly average. Vinati Organics Ltd. (1521.90, 6.34%) and PI Industries Ltd. (2384.90, 3.41%) were trading with volumes 3.8 and 3.6 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

34 stocks overperformed with 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - ACC Ltd. (1919.80, 0.59%), Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. (826.05, -1.14%) and Atul Ltd. (7919.90, 5.60%).

20 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including CARE Ratings Ltd. (462.00, 11.00%) and Jai Corp Ltd. (89.25, 5.19%).