Market Outlook: Nifty at inflection point; defence stocks headed higher?

By Anand James

One point at the start of last week was how strong an offensive could the bears launch. At that point, we were just coming off a sub 25 RSI level, which had historically favoured a bounce back. But such moves also held a strong chance of fizzling out quickly. This is why we had raised our odds of a turn lower last week, potentially before reaching the much-anticipated 23,000 mount. Let us see how we are poised now, having gone through roller coaster ride, after the sharp decline last Monday.

Broader market is undecided

The shortened nature of last week left traders with little insights on the direction ahead as bulls and bears traded blows in equal measure. This resulted in a smaller bodied candle for the week on the Nifty 50, when compared to the previous two weeks. But the sharp down close on Thursday also meant that more stocks on the Nifty 500 index closed below their 10 day SMA when compared to last week. While over 73% NSE 500 constituents were trading above this key short move MA by the end of the previous week, only 43% stocks closed above the same, last Thursday.

Sectoral cues

Nifty IT index has broken below the monthly 61.8% Fibonacci retracement level of June 2024 low to Dec 2024 high move, hinting at more downsides. Also, the monthly MACD has broken below the signal line adding to the negative sentiment. Last time when similar downside happened in Nifty IT in Apr 2000, we saw 44% fall since the break of Fibonacci golden ratio. Similar breakout favoring downsides are seen in heavyweights like Infosys, Wipro, HCL Tech, LTIMindtree and Tech Mahindra which are expected to trigger more downsides in the index.

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Meanwhile, in defence sector, most of the stocks have corrected more than 50% from the July highs and the heavyweights have started to build a base and looks to be gearing up for reversal. The average 14-day RSI of the major defence stocks is around 45 which shows more room on the upside. Expect Bharat Electronics, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders,

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