Banking took the worst hit today, followed by Realty, Metals, and Power. The best performing sector was Sugar.Metals:Sterlite saw the largest fall with a large increase in OI and Volume, This was followed by Hind zinc and Welspun Guj. While Hind Zinc also added on to OI. Welspun Guj showed a moderate increase.
Stock to watch out for is Sterlite to short.
After moving in a channel for past couple of days it has broken below its 1st support of 591 on huge volume and is also trading marginally below its multiple support area at 580.
Short sellers can look for a target of 545 with stop loss above 591.
This is an intraday chart of STERLITE INDS Future (1 month).Banking:The sector witnessed negative trend across the board. The leaders in the fall were PNB, IOB and Canbank.While PNB added 12.6 per to its OI with a huge increase in volume, Canbank and IOB showed a moderate increase in OI.
Along with PNB the stock to watch out for would be AXIS BANK which closed flat but added 15.1 % to its OI.
The stock is trading at a very precarious level just managing to hold on to its support line at 705. Further positive move above 725 can be taken as an entry signal with stop loss below 705.
This is an intraday chart of AXISBANK Future (1 month)Sugar:
Balrampur and Triveni were the leader of the pack with gains of 3.1% and 2.7 % respectively. There was no major increase in OI and the volume was also low indicating that the upmove is unlikely to sustain.
Realty:While the fall was moderate in the sector, with Orbitcorp posting a 2.8 % gain, The stock which took excessive beating was Purva ( -8.4 %) . It also showed a huge increase in volume and simultaneous increase in OI by 52.2 %.
Power:
The fall was widespread with stocks like Bhel, Cesc, KSK and Neyvelli Lignite topping the list. Bhel showed 10.5 % increase in OI and Neyvelli showed 14.4 % increase in OI.
However the stock to watch out for in this sector is RPOWER which closed flat but witnessed a 49.4 % increase in OI.
Currently it has given a spike up from the level of 165 on huge volume. Taking in a broader view the stock is making an “Inverted Head & Shoulder” formation with breakout coming at 175. One can go long on this stock above 175 or at current levels with a strict stop loss at 165.
This is an intraday chart of RPOWER Future (1 month).