Technical & Derivatives Report
Nifty Bank Outlook - (22300)
On Friday, Bank Nifty started with a gap up opening and it
remained within a range throughout the session to end with gains
of 1.36% tad at 22300 levels.
On the daily chart, the bank index for the last one month is trading
in a range of 21000 and 22500. With the last week's activity, the
base has now shifted higher towards 21400 and we sense the next
directional move can only be seen on a breakout from 21400 -
22500 levels. Till then traders are advised to focus on individual
stocks within the basket as they are giving trading opportunities
on both sides of the trend. Immediate support is placed around
Friday's gap at 22080 followed by Thursday's low at 21886.
Key Levels
Support 1 – 22080 Resistance 1 – 22500
Support 2 – 21886 Resistance 2 – 22670
Exhibit 1: Nifty Daily Chart
Sensex (38435) / Nifty (11372)
We kick started the last week higher on Monday on the back of a
cheerful mood across the globe. This was followed by a strong
trading session where we witnessed some robust moves in index
heavyweights as well as the broader market. During the remaining
part of the week, index just trapped in a range and had extremely
lethargic moves to register its highest weekly close after February
20, 2020.
Barring the first couple of days, it was once again a boring week for
index specific traders. Although, the Banking, Metal and Capital
Goods managed to chip in to some extent, but the real outshining
space has been the mid and small cap universe. Clearly, there has
been no stopping for this space and especially the way these stocks
just took off in the last three weeks. When midcap rally starts, it
generally creates a euphoric situation and this is clearly what we are
experiencing for the past few days. Nobody knows when and where
it’s going to stop and at the same time, it’s hard not to participate
also. The overall structure remains sturdy; but we believe that sooner
or later, the market is likely to witness some correction, which would
be healthy in the longer run. In the last five months, forget bearish,
we did not even sound cautious and used all dips to get into the
market. But now looking at a few observations, we do not want to
maintain similar optimism purely with the short-term view.
Key Levels
Support 1 – 11300 Resistance 1 – 11460
Support 2 – 11250 Resistance 2 – 11500
Exhibit 2: Nifty Bank Daily Chart
On the daily chart, we can see a small ‘Rising Wedge’ and ‘Bearish
Wolfe Wave’ pattern and a move below 11250-11200 would
confirm a near term reversal to undergo some price correction in
coming days. As far as the NIFTY MIDCAP 50 index is concerned,
although it has surpassed the weekly ‘200-SMA’ marginally, we
advise taking some money off the table now and aggressive bets
should ideally be avoided overnight. Adding to all this, we would like
to draw attention towards an important development in ‘US DOLLAR
INDEX’. We have seen massive correction in this over the past few
months, which has triggered some gravity defying moves in equity
markets; but now this index seems to have rebounded from key
supports along with the ‘Positive Divergence’ in RSI. Hence, further
pullback in the DOLLAR index can lead to some corrective moves
going forward. By mentioning all these points, we do not expect a
complete reversal, rather such intermediate correction is considered
a healthy development and provides better opportunities for those
who have missed the bus in the last few months.