Nifty 50 was trading at 21746.90 (15.5, 0.1%) , BSE Sensex was trading at 72225.62 (-14.6, 0.0%) while the broader Nifty 500 was trading at 19486.90 (57.8, 0.3%)

Market breadth is highly positive. Of the 2042 stocks traded today, 1461 were on the uptrend, and 536 went down.

Riding High:

Largecap and midcap gainers today include Vodafone Idea Ltd. (17.50, 9.38%), Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd. (107.30, 5.25%) and YES Bank Ltd. (22.50, 4.90%).

Downers:

Largecap and midcap losers today include Eicher Motors Ltd. (4042.00, -2.45%), Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company Ltd. (1229.90, -2.37%) and Bharti Airtel Ltd. (1009.10, -2.24%).

Crowd Puller Stocks

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

Top high volume gainers on BSE included JBM Auto Ltd. (1631.55, 11.43%), KIOCL Ltd. (394.30, 7.10%) and Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd. (801.55, 6.48%).

Route Mobile Ltd. (1661.25, 3.92%) was trading at 4.3 times of weekly average. Sterlite Technologies Ltd. (148.70, 4.13%) was trading with volume 3.5 times weekly average on BSE at the time of posting this article.

BSE 500: highs, lows and moving averages

73 stocks took off, crossing 52 week highs,

Stocks touching their year highs included - Ajanta Pharma Ltd. (2132.60, 2.35%), Ambuja Cements Ltd. (534.40, 2.59%) and Bank of Baroda (235.65, 1.97%).

9 stocks climbed above their 200 day SMA including Gujarat Gas Ltd. (474.80, 2.88%) and Aavas Financiers Ltd. (1562.75, 1.99%). 3 stocks slipped below their 200 SMA including Data Patterns (India) Ltd. (1834.50, -1.43%) and Delhivery Ltd. (385.20, -1.04%).