Buy or sell stocks for today: Despite positive global market cues, the Indian stock market ended lower after a highly volatile session on Monday. The Nifty 50 index lost 33 points and finished at 22,442, while the BSE Sensex ended marginally higher at 73,895. The Bank Nifty index went off 28 points and closed at 48,895.
However, the broad market indices fell more than the frontline indices even as the advance-decline ratio fell sharply to 0.45:1. Vaishali Parekh, a seasoned Vice President — Technical Research at Prabhudas Lilladher, believes that the Indian stock market sentiments may remain cautiously optimistic till the India VIX settles down. The Prabhudas Lilladher expert added that Dalal Street bias may improve once the Nifty 50 index breaches the 22,600 mark.
Regarding stocks to buy today, Vaishali Parekh recommended three buy or sell stocks for today: NHPC, Jindal Street, and Hindustan Unilever. On the outlook for the Nifty 50 today, Vaishali Parekh said, "The Nifty 50 index witnessed another volatile session swinging between 22,400 and 22,600 levels, with bias overall maintained cautiously positive and a need to watch and wait for India VIX to settle down. As said earlier, Nifty has the crucial support of 22300, while on the upper side, it needs to breach the decisively 22600 zone for the bias to turn positive and establish some conviction." "The Bank Nifty index has a crucial support zone of 20 DMA near 48400 levels, while 49500 levels on the upper side are the resistance barriers that must be crossed for a further upward move.
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