Technical & Derivatives Report
After Friday’s hint of profit booking, markets started the new week
marginally in the green. However, within few minutes of trade,
Nifty entered a negative territory. In the first half, BANKNIFTY was
showing some outperformance as it was reluctant to fall, mainly
due to some sturdy trade in banking giant HDFC BANK after
posting it’s quarterly numbers over the weekend. This resilience
from banking index didn’t last too long, because some of the
heavyweight banks started to take a toll. Eventually, BANKNIFTY
ended with a decent correction of nearly one and half a percent.
Yesterday in the first half, banking index outperformed Nifty but
in the latter half, the sell off was mainly led by banks after a decent
rebound around the midsession. With this it is comfortably below
32000, indicating some weakness. For the coming session, we
expect the weakness to persist and hence bounce back towards
32000-32200 is likely to get sold into. On the other hand, the
correction is likely to extend towards next key support zone of
31500-31300.
Key Levels
Support 1 – 31500 Resistance 1 – 32000
Support 2 – 31300 Resistance 2 – 32200
Exhibit 1: Nifty Daily Chart
Nifty started the session around the previous week’s close but right
from the word go, Nifty witnessed some selling pressure and by
noon it breached the 14300 mark. The index then recovered from
the low but that intraday pullback got sold into, and it marked a low
of 14222 during closing. The Nifty index registered a loss of over a
percent at close while the Bank Nifty corrected by over 400 points
after showing some resilience in the first hour of trade.
Nifty had already indicated signs of some correction in Friday’s
session as it closed below its 5 day EMA. The index breached its
support of 14380 in the first hour of the trade which confirmed an
extension of this profit booking and then we witnessed a good sell-
off in the broader markets. The Bank Nifty showed some relative
strength in the first hour of the trade, but it then synced with the
market move and corrected for the rest of the session. The Nifty
Midcap index resisted around some important retracement level last
week, and thus this space too witnessed a decent profit booking in
yesterday’s session. If we look at the broader picture, this correction
definitely seems to be a corrective phase within an uptrend which
would provide good opportunities to buy stocks on dips. However,
from an intraday or a short term perspective, the volatility is likely to
be high as some more profit booking could not be ruled out. Hence,
traders should use intraday pullbacks to exit longs.
The U.S. Dollar index has seen a sharp correction in the last few
months and the index chart seems to be inversely correlated to the
same. In last couple of sessions, we have seen a pullback move there
and thus, this too seems to be leading to profit booking in equity
markets. The immediate supports for the Nifty are placed around
14180 followed by 14130 while 14400 would be the immediate
resistance.
Key Levels
Support 1 – 14130 Resistance 1 – 14400
Support 2 – 14000 Resistance2 – 14460
Exhibit 2: Nifty Bank Daily Chart