Index Outlook: Bulls wrest advantage
The week gone by was one of the most dramatic in recent times; with sound and fury, panic and exuberance along with the usual bunch of bewildered onlookers. Monday started with the Sensex plunging... »
When companies impair assests
Tata Steel was in news this week, for the wrong reason. The company announced that it expects a $1.6 billion write-down of goodwill and assets for 2012-13 based on its impairment review for the... »
Shariah index can bring in more investors
The BSE Tasis Shariah 50 index formed using the guidelines of the Islamic investment code and upon the advice of a Shariah advisory board allows investors to trade in stock markets... »
Pivotals: Reliance Industries (Rs 834.4)
Last week, the stock advanced 2.6 per cent breaching the key resistance as well as 200-day moving average at around Rs 820. Near-term trend is up for the stock. Traders with shor... »
Separating ‘scam’ from gate’
What makes an unethical action a mere scandal or just another scam, as opposed to being labelled a ‘gate’? While the Inuit Eskimos may have only a handful of words for snow, the dark all... »
Index Outlook: Raring to go higher
We closed the special trading session on Saturday with both the Nifty and the Sensex poised tantalisingly close to their previous peaks. In technical parlance, the indices are at key resistances o... »
Pivotals: Reliance Industries (Rs 801.2)
Reliance Industries has been moving sideways for more than a month in the band between Rs 760 and Rs 820. Last week too, the stock was volatile. It is currently testing its 200-day moving... »
Index Outlook: Ready to take wing
Even as summer is sending temperatures soaring across the country, stock prices are showing no signs of wilting. It was an unusually perky show by the stock market last week driven by expectation... »
How Ponzi schemes swindle money
Joining the long list of fake money making schemes — Potato bonds, emu farming, goat rearing — the Kolkata-based Saradha Group’s ponzi scheme, is the new kid on the block. But what are p... »
Having it all: Equity returns with capital protection
The increased equity market volatility and accentuated market cycles have tested the courage and patience of equity investors many times during the last few years. As a result over the l... »
Markets prove resilient
Even as pandemonium prevailed in commodity markets and other global equity markets witnessed a sell-off, Indian equity markets put up a strong show. The Sensex and the Nifty gained around 4 per ce... »
Reliance Industries (Rs 775.3)
RIL prolonged its holding above its significant support levels of Rs 760 in the week ago. Moreover, it is hovering at a trend-deciding level and therefore short-term traders should... »
Teetering on the brink
It was an extremely bumpy ride for investors last week as stock prices whipped in both directions. The unease among investors was increased by the fact that the Sensex and the Nifty are hanging on... »
Construct a short strangle in Nifty
Renewed fears of early general elections, concerns over Q4 corporate earnings and weak global cues led to sharp decline in the Nifty last week. It rose to a weekly high of 5,754 on Tuesday after P... »
Index outlook: Looking for a foothold
It was an insipid three-day week in the stock market with many participants taking a much-deserved break from the clatter of the stock market. The week began on a wobbly note with the Samajwadi Pa... »
Initiate a bearish strategy in Nifty
Stocks poised on the brink
Bear call spread in Nifty
Pivotals: Reliance Industries, SBI, Infosys and Tata Steel
Reliance Industries (Rs 813.3)
The stock was volatile in the previous week and is still trading in the sideways consolidation range between Rs 760 and Rs 820. It is testing the upp... »
What does weather forecast say
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted a normal monsoon - rainfall at 98 per cent of the long-term average, for the 2013 monsoon season of June–September, when the country rec... »
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Pivotals - Reliance Industries (Rs 793.1)
RIL was choppy in the previous week. After making a blip above key resistance at Rs 800 it fell steeply 3 per cent on Friday. The stock is trending sideways at a key trend-deciding area; t... »
Index Outlook: Market near a roadblock
The spotlight will once again turn on the Reserve Bank Governor next week as the Central Bank’s annual monetary policy statement is set to be unveiled next Friday. As cries for r... »
Reliance Industries (Rs 781.8)
The stock was volatile. After testing the key resistance at Rs 800, it fell and ended marginally higher in the previous week. It is moving sideways at a key trend-deciding level and so sho... »
Bank Nifty remains in medium-term downtrend
In this week's dissector we take a close look at the Bank Nifty index and the CNX IT index which showed divergence last week. Bank Nifty advanced 2.8 per cent while Infosys’s March 2013 qu... »
Reliance Industries (Rs 780.3)
The stock was volatile and formed a doji candlestick pattern indicating neutral stance in the weekly charts. It continues to trade above significant support levels at Rs 760. Further, the... »
Stocks on a slippery slope
Indian benchmark indices that have been precariously poised over the last two weeks began slithering down last week. The Nifty has closed below the 5,600 level and the Sensex below 18,600, much to... »
Pivotals: Reliance Industries (Rs 773.7)
In a truncated week, RIL fell 4.5 per cent breaking through its key support zone between Rs 800 and Rs 810 last week. The stock has resumed its short-term downtrend that has been in place from its... »
Reliance Industries (Rs 810.8)
Zerodha makes stock broking pay at Rs 20
