Thursday, March 10, 2011

A Difficult Trading Day


The two day winning streak was halted as market saw some selling in select banking stocks because of weak global cues. The West Asia crisis saw further escalation and crude continues to trouble to market and downgrading of Spain also played a small role in the bearishness. The market edged lower in early trade as Asian stocks fell on escalating fighting in Libya. The market recovered after hitting a fresh intraday low in morning trade. An intraday recovery in afternoon trade proved short-lived with the market soon losing ground again in mid-afternoon trade as European stocks fell. The market once again came off lows at the fag end of the trading session. Banking stocks dropped ahead of a monetary policy review from the central bank next week. India's largest private sector bank by net profit ICICI Bank lost 1.87% and India's second largest private sector bank by net profit HDFC Bank fell 0.16%. India's largest bank by net profit and branch network State Bank of India shed 1.63%. Stocks like Reliance Capital, APIL, ABB and BHEL were the few stocks which were on the gainers list.

Today was a very difficult trading day as movements were very choppy. Tomorrow however, we expect the market to gain some momentum and hence the probability of it being a trended day is on the higher side.  The critical levels for the Nifty futures on the upside would be 5525 and 5460 on the lower side. Trade on the short side if the support is broken and on the long side if the resistance is broken on the upside.

Immediate supports for Nifty futures are 5460 and 5420/5395 and the resistance lies at 5525 and 5548 and 5580.

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