Nifty 50 was trading at 15082.45 (-25.7, -0.2%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 50108.03 (-85.3, -0.2%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 12843.75 (4.7, 0.0%)

Market breadth is in the green. Of the 1723 stocks traded today, 1062 were on the uptrend, and 614 went down.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Relaxo Footwears Ltd. (999.50, 8.90%), The New India Assurance Company Ltd. (165.75, 8.44%) and Indian Overseas Bank (17.30, 6.46%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include PI Industries Ltd. (2564.50, -6.46%), Aarti Industries Ltd. (1647.40, -5.76%) and Tata Motors Ltd. (318.10, -4.32%).

Crowd Puller Stocks

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Relaxo Footwears Ltd. (999.50, 8.90%), The New India Assurance Company Ltd. (165.75, 8.44%) and VIP Industries Ltd. (362.40, 6.67%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Aarti Industries Ltd. (1647.40, -5.76%) and Varroc Engineering Ltd. (389.05, -0.61%).

Brigade Enterprises Ltd. (259.85, 3.94%) was trading at 8.2 times of weekly average. Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (2776.85, 1.95%) and Force Motors Ltd. (1254.45, 4.22%) were trading with volumes 5.8 and 5.2 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

31 stocks took off, crossing 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Adani Transmission Ltd. (1308.00, 3.78%), Balkrishna Industries Ltd. (2143.75, 1.24%) and Bharat Electronics Ltd. (156.00, 0.91%).

10 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Swan Energy Ltd. (138.70, 3.51%) and Bata India Ltd. (1486.85, 2.48%). 5 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (1488.65, -1.83%) and Petronet LNG Ltd. (241.40, -0.72%).