Index outlook: Stocks chill in hot summer
Investors wilting under the searing summer heat wave were further tormented by a steep petrol price hike last week. But this hike helped rein in the unfettered fall in the rupee. The India currenc... »
Pivotals: Reliance Industries (Rs 692)
The stock was volatile and continued to test its significant support range between Rs 690 and Rs 700 in the last week. We restate that an upward reversal from this support band will be a c... »
Sizzling Stocks: Adani Enterprises (Rs 259.3)
The stock's 7 per cent gain on Friday pushed its weekly gains to 12 per cent. After registering a 52-week low on May 18 at Rs 222, the stock started to move higher. This up move is triggered by a... »
An opportunity to trade the FTSE-100
Derivative traders can now start trading on FTSE-100, the widely tracked index of the UK equity stock market. The National Stock Exchange launched the futures and options contracts on FTSE... »
Pivotals - Reliance Industries (688.6)
The stock breached the key support at Rs 690 and declined to an intra-week low of Rs 673 last week. However, taking support around this low, it recovered most of its losses. Still, the sto... »
Moving averages work better in trending stocks
Anyone who has dabbled with charts would agree that one of the easiest tools available in technical analysis is the moving average. It gives buy and sell signals at the apt juncture that can be... »
Low risk does not always mean low returns
The field of finance is a fascinating one. It is blessed with many myths, riddles, puzzles and mysteries. One such myths is that one needs to take high risks to earn high returns. In other words,... »
Sizzling Stocks: Indian Bank (Rs 179.6)
The stock was in a medium-term downtrend, in place since this February peak of Rs 253. This trend accelerated last week and the stock slumped 8.5 per cent on Friday following its disappoin... »
Index Outlook: Stocks search for a floor
The stock market was buffeted by wave after wave of negative tidings last week that dragged the Sensex well below the critical support at 16,500 and the Nifty below 5,000. There was a dramatic int... »
Pivotals - Reliance Industries (726.4)
The stock fell 1.8 per cent in the previous week and is testing key support at Rs 723. Short-term trend is down for the stock. This trend will persist as long as the stock hovers below Rs... »
Understanding ‘The Greeks' in Options
Greeks are key risk measures and an appropriate guide for any option strategies initiated. For an option trader, understanding Greeks is as important as understanding different strategies. Greeks... »
Sizzling Stocks - TCS (Rs 1,202.9)
Last week, the stock's significant long-term support at Rs 1,060 arrested its decline from the 52-week high registered in late February 2012 at Rs 1,279. Triggered by slightly better than expected... »
Handling Andrew's pitchfork
Some tools in technical analysis appear so simple that they are dismissed by most after a cursory glance. ‘Andrew's pitchfork' is one such tool that does not receive the attention that it deserves... »
Index Outlook: Hovering on the brink
Stocks buckled last Monday with the Sensex losing 277 points in that session. They could not garner the energy to raise themselves in the following sessions and instead dragged sideways for the re... »
Of bars and candlesticks
Pivotals - Reliance Industries (Rs 731.4)
Sizzling Stocks: Max India (Rs 192.7)
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Index Outlook - Resilient show by stocks
Index outlook: At the 16,000 bastion
There was mayhem in global financial markets last week with stock prices crashing, currencies spinning out of control and bank deposit holders in Spain and Greece stampeding to withdraw their mone... »
Sizzling Stocks - Divi's Laboratories (Rs 912.2)
Divi's Laboratories skyrocketed by Rs 89.8 or 11 per cent accompanied by good volumes last week. Ever since bottoming out in early 2009 at a low of Rs 382, the stock has been on a long-ter... »
Pivotals: Reliance Industries (697.3)
In line with our expectation, the stock declined last week. It registered a 52-week low at Rs 671 on May 8. The stock has slumped 4 per cent and is presently testing the key medium-term su... »
Continuation of trend and trendline
In this column of Tech School, we shall look at some of the complexities associated with the trend.Technical analysis on a security can be done in different time frames such as long-term... »
Sizzling Stocks - IRB Infrastructure Developers (Rs 128.7)
IRB Infrastructure nose-dived 24 per cent with extraordinary volumes breaking through a key long-term support around Rs 170 last week . However, the stock is hovering above its next long... »
BSE Capital Goods index goes downhill
In this week's dissector column we take a close look at BSE Capital Goods, the top underperformer among the BSE sectoral indices, by tumbling 346 points or 3.7 per cent on Friday to finish at 9254... »
Index Outlook - Stepping below 17,000
It doesn't take much to spook the market these days. You just have to stand up and shout “Mauritius” or “GAAR” and stocks will tumble pell-mell. Stocks that were coasting along peacefully till Thu... »
Pivotals - Reliance Industries
RIL was choppy and climbed one per cent last week. It has been trading just above its key support at Rs 723 for the past one month. The stock's short-term trend is down and will continue to be dow... »
CNX IT Index reversing upwards from key support
The long-term trend has been up for the CNX IT Index since it took support at significant base level around 2,000 levels in early 2009. But after encountering resistance in the zone betw... »
Index Outlook - Sell in May and go away?
Stocks threw away their despondent air to trudge slightly higher last week. The RBI's higher-than-expected policy rate cut was largely responsible for the market perking up. But the accompanying s... »
Sizzling Stocks - Aurobindo Pharma (Rs 133.1)
Index Outlook: Awaiting the earnings parade
Pivotals: Reliance Industries (Rs 751.2)
Dissector: Health Care Index in medium-term uptrend
Index Outlook - Stocks in a period of calm
Pivotals - Reliance Industries (Rs 747.1)
52 Week Flop: Shree Ganesh Jewellery House
Sizzling Stocks - Ranbaxy Laboratories (Rs 469)
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Pilots' union defends stir, says all attempts made to inform minister
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Index outlook: Stocks chill in hot summer
Index outlook: At the 16,000 bastion
Pivotals: Reliance Industries (Rs 692)
Sizzling Stocks: Adani Enterprises (Rs 259.3)
Pivotals - Reliance Industries (688.6)
Index Outlook: Stocks search for a floor
Query Corner: Axis Bank poised at key support
Sizzling Stocks - Divi's Laboratories (Rs 912.2)
An opportunity to trade the FTSE-100
Moving averages work better in trending stocks