Nifty 50 was trading at 15726.05 (-73.3, -0.5%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 52422.90 (-51.9, -0.1%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 13491.25 (-72.6, -0.5%)

Market breadth is in the red. Of the 1774 stocks traded today, 723 were gainers and 1012 were losers.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Rajesh Exports Ltd. (589.45, 4.88%), Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (2977.45, 3.39%) and GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (1568.40, 3.38%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. (741.00, -11.76%), Adani Enterprises Ltd. (1421.50, -11.25%) and Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (68.10, -10.63%).

Crowd Puller Stocks

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included FDC Ltd. (392.70, 16.36%), eClerx Services Ltd. (1825.85, 13.18%) and CARE Ratings Ltd. (635.70, 5.64%).

Top high volume losers on BSE were Adani Enterprises Ltd. (1421.50, -11.25%), Zensar Technologies Ltd. (293.25, -5.89%) and TTK Prestige Ltd. (8870.35, -0.28%).

Maharashtra Seamless Ltd. (322.15, 4.54%) was trading at 5.1 times of weekly average. AstraZeneca Pharma India Ltd. (3824.10, 1.16%) and BEML Ltd. (1380.60, 4.09%) were trading with volumes 4.8 and 4.1 times weekly average respectively on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

30 stocks overperformed with 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Bajaj Finance Ltd. (6210.00, 1.47%), Caplin Point Laboratories Ltd. (678.85, 2.00%) and Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd. (420.00, 5.83%).

4 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Ipca Laboratories Ltd. (2092.00, 2.21%) and Bayer Cropscience Ltd. (5583.00, 2.17%). 6 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. (696.00, -3.17%) and Sunteck Realty Ltd. (302.45, -1.34%).