Nifty 50 closed at 15590.00 (15.2, 0.1%) , BSE Sensex closed at 51849.48 (-85.4, -0.2%) while the broader Nifty 500 closed at 13283.80 (73.4, 0.6%)

Market breadth is overwhelmingly positive. Of the 1743 stocks traded today, 1248 were on the uptick, and 473 were down.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Motherson Sumi Systems Ltd. (269.10, 13.40%), Adani Total Gas Ltd. (1584.60, 10.00%) and Adani Enterprises Ltd. (1553.65, 9.70%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include ITC Ltd. (209.00, -2.90%), Aarti Industries Ltd. (1670.00, -2.38%) and Relaxo Footwears Ltd. (1061.85, -2.35%).

Volume Shockers

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included Sumitomo Chemical India Ltd. (365.80, 14.51%), Motherson Sumi Systems Ltd. (269.10, 13.40%) and IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd. (130.75, 12.67%).

Top high volume loser on BSE was Responsive Industries Ltd. (148.00, -5.13%).

Nilkamal Ltd. (2470.00, 11.46%) was trading at 18.1 times of weekly average. Heritage Foods Ltd. (371.30, 5.99%) and Gujarat Gas Ltd. (566.55, 4.84%) were trading with volumes 10.5 and 8.8 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

31 stocks overperformed with 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Aegis Logistics Ltd. (374.90, 5.35%), Avanti Feeds Ltd. (607.90, 0.74%) and Bharat Forge Ltd. (699.35, 4.91%).

9 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including EPL Ltd. (249.35, 3.64%) and Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. (703.00, 2.73%). 2 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Responsive Industries Ltd. (148.00, -5.13%) and PVR Ltd. (1323.05, 1.20%).