Nifty 50 was trading at 15727.75 (-23.9, -0.2%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 52257.85 (-70.7, -0.1%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 13487.95 (8.3, 0.1%)

Market breadth is in the green. Of the 1729 stocks traded today, 936 were on the uptick, and 764 were down.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Adani Power Ltd. (147.90, 16.55%), Piramal Enterprises Ltd. (2120.55, 8.15%) and Natco Pharma Ltd. (1099.00, 5.85%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Bank of India (82.70, -2.25%), Hindalco Industries Ltd. (386.20, -2.23%) and Vodafone Idea Ltd. (9.88, -2.18%).

Volume Rockets

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included DB Corp Ltd. (114.50, 17.20%), Laurus Labs Ltd. (637.00, 11.33%) and Schneider Electric Infrastructure Ltd. (139.30, 8.91%).

Tata Elxsi Ltd. (3778.50, 4.58%) was trading at 4.9 times of weekly average. Tube Investments of India Ltd. (1272.25, 3.66%) and Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company Ltd. (249.95, 7.51%) were trading with volumes 4.7 and 4.5 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

59 stocks took off, crossing 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - ACC Ltd. (2037.20, -0.43%), Adani Power Ltd. (147.90, 16.55%) and Atul Ltd. (9067.05, 1.50%).

12 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Strides Pharma Science Ltd. (832.75, 6.94%) and Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd. (208.70, 2.53%). 3 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Vodafone Idea Ltd. (9.88, -2.18%) and Future Consumer Ltd. (8.13, -0.85%).