nifty auto fell 3.46% today, the worst of any sector on the board.
nifty IT gained 2.17% the same session, the best of any sector on the board.
both moves happened while FIIs pulled ₹10,148cr out of cash markets, the fifth straight day of outflows, ₹34,203cr gone over that stretch.
money leaving the market in bulk usually drags everything down together. instead one sector fell hardest and another rose most, on the same day, funded by the same exit.
NIFTY AUTO just flipped from lagging to leading, but only 20% of names are above the 50DMA.
M&M, Eicher, Bajaj grow 23-25%. HEROMOTOCO grows 8%, cheapest at 17x, and still sits below its own 50DMA.
@deepakshenoy the $200bn swap book is the part that rarely makes the headline number. $765bn sounds like a war chest, $565bn net is still a comfortable cushion, but it's a different sentence.
@anand_luhar MSP as a demand usually comes from farmers, not investors. if traders are asking for it too, that's less a policy stance and more a signal that the broader income side of the economy feels shaky enough for markets to notice.
@Mitesh_Engr DII buying has a ceiling too, it's just a higher one than most people assume until a session like this shows where it sits. absorption isn't infinite, it's a function of how much cash they're sitting on that week.
@niki_poojary one historical precedent from 2001 is a sample size of one. market structure, FII participation and derivatives depth were all different animals back then, the base rate here is thinner than the chart makes it look.
@sourabhsiso19@ScholarTrading the part worth sitting with: zero-adjustment only works if the sizing on monday already assumed the worst day of the week happens on wednesday. the discipline is in the entry, not the discipline of not touching it after.
brent crude jumped 8.6% overnight on fresh geopolitical risk headlines out of the UK.
by the time that reached the Gift Nifty print, it showed up as a 76-point gap-down before the bell even rang.
wednesday's sector board already had the tell. Media up near 3%, Realty and Defence both green. Healthcare and Pharma both down over 1.5%.
that's not a random scatter. that's a market repricing energy as a tax, not a demand story, and rotating straight out of anything rate-sensitive or import-dependent.
for India specifically, crude near 98 dollars is a fuel and current-account cost before it's anything else. the sector map just priced that in ahead of the index.
why is "energy" up when oil stocks aren't moving?
NIFTY ENERGY and NIFTY OIL & GAS share most of their names. the only real difference is power: NTPC, POWERGRID, TATAPOWER.
that's the leg that's actually leading. the oil names are the weak part of the basket.
why did PSU banks lose more than 3% on monday while the rest of the market just bled normally because crude near 99 dollars a barrel does two things to a bank at once, not one. it keeps the RBI stuck on hold instead of cutting, and today the RBI ran a liquidity-draining VRRR auction on top of that, tightening the overnight corridor further. rate-sensitive names don't dislike expensive oil. they dislike what expensive oil does to the guy who sets their cost of money.
track how sectors rotate here: https://t.co/tgAMP7IXEL
@iRadhikaGupta trust is a nice unifying answer for three separate questions, but it's also the one variable nobody can put a multiple on. markets have rallied on weak fundamentals plenty of times, the honest word for that gap is usually liquidity, not trust.
IT fell 0.26% today. PSU banks fell 3.24%. same red day, twelve times the damage.
IT has almost no domestic leverage to worry about. PSU banks carry it in their bones, so when FIIs pull ₹3,694cr out of cash markets in a session, the sector most tied to Indian credit conditions takes the hit and the one billed on dollar revenue barely notices.
vix jumped 13.09% the same day. that's the market pricing the nervousness unevenly too.
@indiacharts 7 straight weekly declines is rare enough that most active traders alive today have only seen it a handful of times. retracement zones look tidy in hindsight, the part that never shows up on the chart is how many people held through week 5 and folded on week 7.
sad, honestly, the state of affairs in the Indian markets.
however, we shouldn't forget that the rallies in Korea/Taiwan are driven by mostly semiconductor and AI supply chain exposure. nifty's mix is primarily banks, consumer, and IT.
none of nifty's sectors have seen that sort of tailwind, but about time the govt takes cognisance of the markets if we want to get out of this present slump
2 years ago, on 27th September 2024, Nifty hit all time high.
Cut to 2 years later, we're ~13% down from that high.
The India growth story doesn't seem to be adding up quite right.
openAI's last private round priced it near $150bn and the anthropic/claude side has also been raising at a similar valuation. given the "new research" that they "don't understand" is all over the news, one can safely assume that the direction they're working in is $1 trillion for sure.
why are consumer durables suddenly "improving"?
it's basically one stock that is carrying it - TITAN
only 23% of names sit above their 50-day average, decliners outnumber advancers today. however, the "improvement" is basically Titan's momentum, not the entire sector turning.
why is petrol pricier on a day nifty gaps up green.
crude jumped 9% overnight on hormuz risk. that hits OMC margins directly, BPCL is the visible one.
it also keeps the rupee weak and imported inflation up, so RBI stays stuck, not easing.
india VIX jumped 10.9% today.
bank nifty fell 1.78% while nifty fell 0.93%, and breadth stayed positive: 160 advances to 64 declines, 9 new highs to 1 new low.
financials are ~35% of the index options that build VIX. a handful of big banks dropping can move the fear gauge alone.