Markets are trading high. Nifty 50 was trading at 15082.10 (176.1, 1.2%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 50225.18 (660.3, 1.3%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 12866.40 (1.02%).

Market breadth is highly positive. Of the 1728 stocks traded today, 1152 were on the uptick, and 539 were down.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. (806.05, 7.84%), Torrent Power Ltd. (457.55, 6.22%) and Adani Transmission Ltd. (1455.20, 5.01%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Bosch Ltd. (15376.00, -2.96%), Havells India Ltd. (1040.90, -2.93%) and Balkrishna Industries Ltd. (2119.20, -2.65%).

Crowd Puller Stocks

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. (806.05, 7.84%), JK Lakshmi Cement Ltd. (499.90, 7.32%) and PNB Housing Finance Ltd. (418.55, 6.56%).

Top high volume loser on BSE was Varun Beverages Ltd. (987.15, -1.87%).

Torrent Power Ltd. (457.55, 6.22%) was trading at 9.7 times of weekly average. Responsive Industries Ltd. (163.75, 1.77%) and Lux Industries Ltd. (2061.50, 0.19%) were trading with volumes 6.9 and 6.4 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

30 stocks made 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Adani Transmission Ltd. (1455.20, 5.01%), Bharat Electronics Ltd. (158.20, 0.89%) and Blue Dart Express Ltd. (6013.45, 3.48%).

9 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including JM Financial Ltd. (84.00, 5.20%) and Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. (717.45, 2.95%). 3 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Sterling and Wilson Solar Ltd. (236.20, -2.48%) and EPL Ltd. (245.45, -1.39%).